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Article #8297Re: Space colonies
From: Paul Dietz
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1989 15:10
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1989 15:10
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>According to my sources existing technology *is* more or less adequate >to the task of building space colonies -- at least there are no >"show-stoppers" --, it's just that they're not *affordable*. What's >needed is cheaper space transportation, more experience working in >space, and a good economic motive for building them. I consider orders of magnitude too expensive == inadequate by orders of magnitude. We don't need experience if that experience will not be applied for decades. Consider all the experience gained in Apollo, and subsequently lost, because it wasn't "steam engine time". Paul F. Dietz dietz@cs.rochester.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ncis.llnl.gov!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!labrea!rutgers!mailrus!cornell!rochester!dietz From: dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Re: Space colonies Message-ID: <1989Jan20.101034.10384@cs.rochester.edu> Date: 20 Jan 89 15:10:33 GMT References: <1989Jan18.160559.2021@cs.rochester.edu> <9162@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Reply-To: dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz) Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY Lines: 15