Smells Like Teen Spirit

On Sunday, May 18, 2003, at 07:38 PM, Arthur P. Smith wrote:

> If the transport cost were much higher,
> obviously many more things would have to be produced locally rather
> than being imported. Would this necessarily be a bad thing?

If you're the producer it's great -- you can make more profit. If
you're the consumer it sucks, because less competition means higher
prices and/or lower quality (on the average).

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

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