Earth-Moon Network = Maturing Space Industries

In a message dated 8/24/02 8:44:05 PM, jdr7181@... writes:

<< Would these four elements provide the necessary physical infrastructure to
fuel the development of space industries? Are "space colonies" necessary
for space industries to grow? Does automation and robotics eliminate the
need for large human populations in the development of space industries and
therefore eliminate the need for large colonies that would presumably
support the population? Do we need two stations (in LEO and L2) or can one
in, say, GEO, accomplish the same thing? With the discovery of frozen ice
on the Moon, do we need a station on an asteroid? >>

Yes .
Yes, because good as the machines are, nothing can replace human imagination
and will on location in seeing new wealth that nobody else notice.
No, it will just make each colonies more effective because it will each
colonies to be more fully independant which will allow other colonies to
specialize more in their own niches. That mean more people not less in long
run, even though each colony will have less people in the beginning than
industrial age predictions. You also forgot that the space itself is also a
real estate too.
You need to remember that people are not interested in space strictly for the
material gains bu also for dreams too. LEO, L5 and GEO have very roles to
play due to the diffeent properties of each location. LEO is vital for
transfer to the other location so it would play the major traffic hub. GEO is
more about communication systems and space elevators. L5 is the key to
interaction between Earth and the system due to its stable location and easy
access to all of locations.
Asteroid, a better question is can we afford NOT to? Beside the materials
that you can't get too well on earth and the sheer ease of mining, two more
important points to keep in mind are this: yesterday, the scienists discover
that the first extinction may have been the result of a metor 12 to 30 miles
wide. Can we afford to ignore the possiblity of lighting strike again? Two, t
he rocks would make a better place for terraforming and homesteading which is
the key to success of entire system economy in long run because having wide
varisty of colonies will specializes more and enable the civilization to
deveolpe much more rapidily and also to ensure the survival of the same
civilization.

Carl Mullin

Carl E. Mullin
visionary artist and entrepreneur
homo asteralis
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