Futuof Space Colonization (And why do we always keep going into politics and economics?)

From: "Ryan Healey"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: [spacesettlers] Future of Space Colonization (And why do we
always keep going into politics and economics?)

(...)
> A mixture of government and corpoate funding might be able to do it
although
> only after something that requires a significant human presence in space
is
> making a good profit. I wouldn't cound on only one of them doing it
alone.
> Corporations can barely see past the next FY let alone the 22 years the
NASA
> Ames Stanford study said would be required to build the first one. At
least
> not in the amounts that'd be needed. Governments have trouble looking
past the
> next election so we'd have some problems.
>

Only democratic governments. In China, for instance, I would guess that the
policy for the ongoing space program will last as much as the current
leadership of the country - and that duration is not limited by elections.

(...)
Lucio Coelho