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"Alan Erskine" <alanerskine1@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> > > > Hans-Marc Olsen wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > I want to conquer Ganymede or Io
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >    Exactly whom would you be conquering there?
> > >
> > > Joann, the guy's a troll - have a look at the rest of his posts.
> >
> > He may be a troll, but there is a valid related question.
>
> He _is_ a troll (invalid email address for a start, it posted from yahoo
and
> google [always worthy of suspicion, plus the highly abusive and offensive
> email it [the troll] sent me after I made that comment), but yes, I agree
> that the question is valid.
>
> > If I want to mine a 100m diameter NEO. Perhaps even I spend a billion
> > dollars to bring it in to Earth Orbit. I start selling oxygen, water
> > and platinum.
>
> Not worth putting into any Earth orbit - as there is almost no gravity on
an
> object of that size, it would be simpler and more economical to mine
insitu
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Do you all think this may be one reason why contries are not pushing harder
to get to other planets or objects in the solar sytem. Due to the fact that
nobody can officialy claim it, therefore it's harder to really protect your
outpost you just set up?

> -- 
> Alan Erskine
> We can get people to the Moon in five years,
> not the fifteen GWB proposes.
> Give NASA a real challenge
> Alanterskine1@bigpond.com
>