Things Moon and More

>Larry,,,, really have enjoyed the real news on these netsites like
>yours,, wish there was a space news channel that had space news, scifi's
>and conferences about the future of life in space..!!! ,,,
>We need a "project ax",,,, a program to develop means of using space
>environment materials to create habitats... Take EROS,,,,,, who is
>developing the laser drill or drilling shuttle to create that asteroid
>into the colony of "NEW MANHATTAN"????
>We can not colonize the universe with the RV thinking>>>>!!!!!????
>Those asteroids are perfect for space station conversion...and
>colonization....
>Thanks for the updates,,,
>clarence,,, the gaia2 club

Hi Clarence, Larry here for Lunar Prospector, the Moon, Mars, and Beyond.

I got your latest email and I don't know the answer to what Pi is in
base 9. I guess I haven't learned how to think outside the box.
http://members.aol.com/oscarcombs/puzzle.htm

I thought in light of the responses from the latest lunar-update post
on building Space Settlements,
http://lifesci3.arc.nasa.gov/SpaceSettlement/ you might be interested
in another web site and an egroup on Space Habitats.

Mike Comb's Space Settlement and FAQ's.
http://members.aol.com/oscarcombs/settle.htm

Most of the concepts on that webpage and in the Space Settlement FAQ
http://members.aol.com/oscarcombs/spacsetl.htm are from "The High
Frontier" by Gerard K. O'Neill, http://www.ssi.org/high-frontier.html
which is available from the Space Studies Institute.
http://www.ssi.org/catalog.html

If you would like to discuss these concepts with others, Mike Combs
recommends the Space Settlers maillist at eGroups.
http://www.egroups.com/group/spacesettlers

One has the options to either receive E-mails "live" as they are
sent, receiving single digests of the day's E-mails, or receiving no
E-mails at all and just reading the archives available on the web.
The egroup was just formed 8 August.

Membership
"Space Settlers" is the group for people who think that
space settlements - huge rotating orbital habitats, or
space cities - are a better option for human colonization
in space than planetary colonization and terraforming. If
you agree with this idea, come and discuss with us the
better ways to make it a reality someday. If you don't
agree, come and expose what you think are the weak points
of that idea. Everyone who thinks that space colonization
is the next great step for Humanity is welcome!

> An almost similar discussion is going on in another eGroup: future9
>
> Perhaps you should have a look there.
> They post FAR more than we do here :)
>
> grtz.
> AxiMaxi

MW: As some of you here already know, the
Future of Humanity is an egroup forum for
the discussion of humanity's scientific,
technologicial, cultural, biological, political,
and socioeconomic future on Earth-- and
beyond. You can check out what's goin' on at
the following URL:
http://www.egroups.com/group/future9

>wish there was a space news channel that had space news, scifi's
and conferences about the future of life in space..!!! ,,,

If you have not tried Space.Com it bears a look (takes a while for
the adds to load :<)
http://www.space.com

And another is NASA's Science@NASA
http://www.spacescience.com

A LOT OF GOOD INFO edited by Dr Tony Phillips
Far-out Housekeeping on the ISS
http://spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast29nov_1.htm
Life in space is a daring adventure, but somebody still has to cook dinner
and take out the trash. Science@NASA interviews two astronauts about
the thrill and routine of daily life in orbit. Here it with RealPlayer at
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/images/housekeeping/audio/story.ram

Thanks for your emails. Have a good day.

Larry Kellogg
for Lunar Prospector
lkellogg@...