An Event of Possible Interest to UK Spacesettlers

On Aug 9, 2012, at 8:29 AM, Andy wrote:

> Naturally most of us in this group want to live in O'Neill type
> habitats but until human economics improves somewhat we may have to
> settle for the Moon or Mars. Thos of you in the UK may be interested
> in this:
>
I don't understand why you think Moon or Mars settlements would be
cheaper for the same sized habitats.

Free-space is easier in every way except access to materials, which
can be easily dealt with simply by building your settlement co-
orbiting with an asteroid. There are hundreds of thousands of Near
Earth Objects with enough mass to build at least one largish
settlement. See http://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/Basics/
wwwwh.html#where for details.