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Re Space
is the Cure for ClimateChange:
Agree that space solar is the right path here. Id spend more time trying to convince the most ardent advocates of vigorous action right now, but so many
of them are not interested in a technical solution to the problem. I fear many view AGW as merely an opportunity to gain political control over energy production (and hence everything, really), so SPS proposals leave them cold.

In Remembering
Roy you wonder what the upper size limit is on space habitats. The largest Ive heard of (staying within the limits of known materials) is
a 24 mile diameter sphere made from titanium. ONeill mentions this briefly in THF.

Regarding the life is too stupid to survive explanation
for the Fermi Paradox, there might be technologies which are almost impossible to ignore, but which rapidly lead to extinction. Sometimes I worry about a technology which could create internal experiences which were more enjoyable than real life. Some people
say maybe thats why the great silence; theyre all inside their matrix. But I think it more likely means they are extinct, leaving nothing behind but fragments of bone and of their matrix technology.

Regards,

Mike Combs

How about throwing some comments my way Mike and telling others about my blog. I am a follower of O'Neill.

Ice on the Moon
https://iceonthemoon.wordpress.com/

Gary Church

Some of the people on these maillists have indicated theyve read and enjoyed some of my fiction. Well, after a 13-year-long
dry spell, I've written a new SF short story. It's named "Barren Knoll", and it's available for (free) download at Smashwords.

The short version of the description:

"A lunar assassin travels through time to claim his target: John F. Kennedy!"

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/953405

No space habitats in this one, but there is a point where use of lunar resources is a life-saver.

Regards,

Mike Combs

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