Bootstrapping Hawaii

On Wednesday, September 10, 2003, at 09:32 PM, victoriatangoman wrote:

> --- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Brad Walsh"
> wrote:
>
>> As much as I hate to sound like a Republican, I have to make a
> case that the
>> pioneers of new endeavors these days are largely corporations.
>
>> Brad W
>
> Which is why the scale of the investment in orbit need not be a
> project killer, if the economc potential is there.

At $10,000/lb to orbit you need an awful lot of profit to make money on
anything but information, which may be why only com-sats, earth
imaging, tv sats, and radio sats seem to have any chance of making
money.

>
> TangoMan
>

The materials in one asteroid (the largest ) are sufficient to make
orbital space colonies with ~150 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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