Bootstrapping - In 60 Easy Steps - (Long Post)

--- In spacesettlers, Al Globus wrote:

On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 01:17 PM, victoriatangoman wrote:

> Here's how I would like to see things develop in the space
> industrialization process.

I like this. I would, though, like to suggest a quick way to
whittle this down to 59 steps.

> 1.) Launch a LEO worker housing station. We're situated near the
> space hotels which preceded us and lowered launch costs
> sufficiently to make industrialization possible.

If the space hotels are there, and we are near them, then why can't
the workers live there? Lots cheaper than building a dedicated
housing unit. They could stay at-cost: the hotels charge just
enough to neither make nor lose money.

Xenophile (who hopes we start soon, as he isn't getting any younger)