Markets

> There ARE markets right now for business in space! In new book by
> Lou Dobbs,
> "Space: the Next Business Frontier" he pointed out that space
> already make
> $100 billion a year combined. The biggest is satellite industry
> with many
> new products coming soon or are already up.

This is fantastic! I didn't know this book existed. I'll have to
get a copy. Thanks!

> In the wake of WTC on
> Sept. 11,
> we have seen a huge need for far better communication and location
> system.
> Cell phones were useless in city with high buildings and few
> broadcasting
> points. TV and some radio was knocked out, except for CBS. We
> need better
> location tracker for people in case of being buried in building
> collaspe or
> soidlers needing to be pull out of territory. Also, we need better
> air
> traffic tracking for airplane and Boeing have proposed air control
> system
> based on satellites. Even solar power satellites could be sold on
> text of
> freeing ourselves from oil and being protected againest terrorist
> attacks
> because of their locations. Even if they destroy the ground
> transformers,
> it's a simple matter to switch to another transformer right away.

These are great ideas. Remember this in spite of the curmudgeons and
naysayer's that hang out in this group (and others). If you don't
have the best idea, you have an idea. Space advocates, in my
experience, tend to look for walls rather than doors and windows.
Ignore them. They're part of the reason we aren't out there.
O'Neill himself envisioned a time when everyone on earth wears a
universal locator.

> Now the question to ask is how can we use today's needs to our
> advantage in
> pushing for future colonization? As long as we use the markets'
> own power,
> we can ride them like surfboarders to the place we want to go.

Absolutely.

> Carl Mullin

Thanks Carl. I enjoy reading a good, upbeat, forward-looking e-mail
every now and then.

Chris.