Digest Number 493

Consider that my mother grew up on a farm in North Dakota with no
electricity, running water, or a flush toilet -- we've come a long way
baby.

On Tuesday, July 16, 2002, at 11:08 AM, Combs, Mike wrote:

>> From: Bob Hardman [mailto:Bsanctuary@...]
>>
>> Mike,
>> If you had experienced as I have the Pre-TV world of
>> say, Ice boxes and ice box size radios, etc. you would better
>> appreciate the extent to which the '40s and '50s vision
>> actually has become a reality.
>
> True (in certain areas). Sometimes I try to imagine someone from the
> 50's
> hearing one of our conversations, like, "Come on over to my condo, we'll
> microwave some popcorn and watch a DVD. - Naw, I've got too much
> e-mail to
> catch up on. - Ahh, you'll just wind up surfing the net instead."
>
> If we could hear a common conversation from 2050, it would be equally
> incomprehensible to us. An awesome thought.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike Combs
>

The materials in one asteroid (the largest ) are sufficient to make
orbital space colonies with ~500 times the surface area of the Earth in
usable real estate. See http://lifesci3.arc.nasa.gov/SpaceSettlement/
for details.

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