To senualpilgram's Free State Proposal

On Monday, September 9, 2002, at 11:00 AM, panamabob wrote:

> Don't underestimate the cost of rules and regulation from government :-(
>
> Besides, like who would come trying to invade you and for what purpose?
>

Pirates, to take your money, sell your possesions, get your base, and
use any women.

> Besides to create an effective defense system is not all THAT expensive,

Except that you never quite know if you've got enough, now do you? And
yes, it is VERY expensive.

The International Space Station (ISS) most important legacy may be
jump-starting space tourism. Consider: the first space tourist, Dennis
Tito, was supposed to go to the Soviet era Mir space station. Under
pressure from NASA, Russia de-orbited the Mir which resulted in Mr. Tito
going to the ISS instead. Now the Mir was old, smelly, crowded and
probably not all that nice. The ISS was brand new, shinny, much more
roomy, etc. Mr. Tito came back to Earth with glowing accounts of how
great space is. Would his experience have been as good on Mir?

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