SSI versus Non Profit Status!

> Damn I hated to see the obit!
>
> Ok Space Cadets!
> Maybe (just maybe) it's time to take the non profit obit and turn it
> into!
>
> The Space Studies Institute is a for profit educational and research
> organization. Founded in 1977 by Dr. Gerard O'Neill, Princeton
> University professor and author of The High Frontier, SSI sponsors
> and conducts research into areas such as solar power satellites,
> lunar bases, space settlements, asteroid mining, and mass drivers.
>
> IMHO The cadavar of SSI needs to jump into bed with the military
> industrial complex! Lets face it that's where the MONEY IS!

Some of it. There's a good deal more in other sectors of the economy.

> I also think SSI should jump onboard the space elevator bandwagon!
> I know I'm a traitor to pure science, but I'm also a realist!
> Sorry Gerard hope your not twirling in the ground!

I doubt O'Neill would be appalled at MIC involvement per se. We might
forget but he was in the Navy in WWII. He also had friendly relations
with quite a few people in major aerospace companies while he was also
pushing colonies and SSI. O'Neill was hardly hostile to things not of
pure science. The whole space colony thing was not pure science. In
fact, it wasn't even close to pure science.

Best,

Chuck Divine