FLASH! - New Report says plants love SPS, why not environmentalists

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>> Not.
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>> SPS will be built primarily from lunar and/or asteroidal materials.
>>
> While bulk materials can come from extraterrestrial sources, there
> will still be a lot of launch activity getting people and machines up
> there to do the work. If SPS provides economic incentive for orbital
> colonization there will be a lot more launch activity. Current
> launchers do quite a bit of damage -- particularly depositing
> materials in the upper atmosphere, but launches are so infrequent it
> doesn't matter much. If we start thinking about dozens of launches
> (or more) a day, we've got a problem. If we understand that problem
> and work around it in the design stage it will be a lot cheaper to
> deal with.
>
>> The cost of launching from Earth is prohibitive.
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>> The quantity of pollution in the atmopshere will hence be negligible.
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>> SPS is more benign by far than any other energy source.
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> Space tourism could be our ticket to the stars. Save your pennies,
> suborbital flights for $100,000 may start in 2005! See
> http://www.spaceadventures.com/suborbital for details.
>
> Al Globus
> CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
> http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html
>
> Views expressed in this email are only my opinions and are not the
> position of any organization I'm familiar with.
>

Space tourism could be our ticket to the stars. Save your pennies,
suborbital flights for $100,000 may start in 2005! See
http://www.spaceadventures.com/suborbital for details.

Al Globus
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html

Views expressed in this email are only my opinions and are not the
position of any organization I'm familiar with.