A Controversial Proposal continues . .

On Friday, September 6, 2002, at 10:46 AM, victoriatangoman wrote:

> --- In spacesettlers@y..., Al Globus wrote:
>>
>>
>> There is an old saw in the real estate market that there are three
>> characteristics that affect the value of property: location,
> location,
>> and location. Right now the orbital location is a little less
> valuable
>> than the most northern parts of Canada and Russia, i.e., close to
> 0.
>> Only better transportation can change that.
>>
> I see your point, but one small quibble, an orbital location in GSO
> is worth something to the right player. An orbital slot is in fct
> worth a lot, because there are only a finite amount of slots. Until,
> technology develops a solution to the overcrowding that is.
>

As you say, orbital slots are quite valuable today. I wasn't clear that
I was refering to orbital location as residential real estate.

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