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Article #7328Re: Question:How Long Until Privately Funded Space Colonization
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 17:41
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 17:41
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In article <1ig234INNs78@agate.berkeley.edu> tyersome@toxic (Randall Tyers) writes:
>In response to this question, a group called the Lunar Society appears
>to be interested funding space colonization. I would like to know
>whether they are for real. Does anyone know if this group is
>legitimate and whether they have any chance of reaching their stated
>goals?
The Lunar Society is for real, although I suppose you might call them
the radical fringe of space colonization. (A characterization that
would probably give Jerry Pournelle apoplexy. :-)) It's an ambitious
program and their chances of success are hard to assess, but they are
neither joking nor crazy.
--
"God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
-Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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