Mining the Sky & Space Tethers to achieve LEO

> From: flymuffins [mailto:flyingmuffins@...]
> > My spin, key issue, is that we must achieve reduced cost to
> achieve LEO because without it, space colonies will remain in the
> distant future.
> I believed this for many, many, many years, but now I'm starting to
> think maybe the opposite is true.

I'm not so sure I agree either. Cheap material delivery to LEO certianly,
but not necessarily from earth's surface. In a way, whatever that costs it
will be a loss leader.

Quite frankly though, however we do it we'll also need to raise a certian
minimum lump sum in the billions of dollars reigon, however low someone gets
the cost, which IIRC no one has managed to do yet. :(

ANTIcarrot.