SSI versus Non Profit Status!

"Maybe (just maybe) it's time to take the non profit obit and turn it
into!...IMHO The cadavar of SSI needs to jump into bed with the military
industrial complex! Lets face it that's where the MONEY IS!" I can see moving whatever of SSI that can be salvaged over to a for-profit operation, but I'm not sure the conjoined twins of gov't bureaucracy (NASA, the Pentagon, etc.) and corporate bureaucracy (Boeing, LockMart, etc.) in the MIC would be a good thing. Hooking up with true *private sector*entrepreneurs (too many examples to name, but ya'all know `the usual suspects' ) might let SSI continue to exist, as a `public information' outlet, a source for general R&D, and/or a group that can focus public opinion, when dealing with the afore-mentioned `conjoined twins'. Another alternative would be to ("just maybe") keep what SSI has in the not-for-profit arena, by merging it with the Space Frontier Foundation.

"Sorry Gerard hope your not twirling in the ground!"

Considering the way O'Neillcreated Geostar (the original GPS company) to help fund SSI, I rather doubt it. If I believed in such things, I'd suggest he'd bemore likely to smile and nod than to `twirl'. ;) Dave