To senualpilgram's Free State Proposal

On Monday, September 9, 2002, at 08:04 PM, Ravenart@... wrote:

> It can be expensive IF you take advice from your fears. I want to ask
> you a
> question: why are people in the job of stealing in the first place?
> Because
> people who steal made a economic choice in a way that is rational to
> them.

Or they just don't like you and want to hurt you. Perhaps they feel you
are unbelievers and interpret their religion as requiring them to kill
unbelievers (not a random example). I've received many emails and
letters from people who believe space colonization is blasphemous.
People's motivations are not only economic, and simple displaying power
by hurting weaklings is surprisingly popular.

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