Friday, December 24, 2010

Robert Zubrin

My education of matters of space exploration continues.  Now I will be looking into this proposition:  A manned mission to Mars.  Zubrin has been a big proponent of this.   However, I am a bit skeptical going in.  The book, "The Case for Mars"  is not available yet on Kindle, so I may wait for it to become available.  Or if I get in a hurry, maybe I'll just order up an older version of the book.  This new one will be an updated version of the original which went to the presses in 1997, I believe.

I did check some customer reviews on Amazon.  It is mostly positive, but that doesn't necessarily tell you anything.   There was one negative review by a Ms. Tutt which I would tend to agree with at the moment.

She is also critical of another one of his books.  Unfortunately, I think Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit tends to agree with Zubrin.  It should be noted here though, that I don't regard anything that anybody writes as gospel.  If I don't agree with Zubrin, I will not be hesitant to say so.  It won't make any difference who says otherwise.

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