Space development investment ( StarBound) Forum: SSI-List
Thread: Space development investment ( StarBound)
# 14654 byCombs, Mike on April 19, 2001, 8:30 a.m.
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RE: [ssi_list] Re: Space development investment
>
> Dr. O'Neill imagined in The High Frontier that the first
> construction
> station to build powersats would be Island One, a society
> with families.
> I imagine rather that the first construction station to build
> powersats
> will be something akin to an offshore oil platform, though with much
> longer tours of duty. A year rather than a fortnight or three weeks.
I think after publication of THF, O'Neill came to view it much the same as you do.
Mike Combs