making money on asteroids

Xenophile,

Very well said,

2000 years ago someone was using stories to allow people to figure out
the moral instead of just giving them the answer. That's how people
work; you need to "live" something in order to get something out of it.

Personally, on my example, I'm not too fond of "Moon 44", I find it a
nice visual movie (good crust) but without anything solid to let it
stand (no meat, nor script). The fact that they use helicopters on a
moon should be example enough of what I mean by no meat.

However, the act of piracy is well seen in the movie. One rogue company
that wants to take the other companies out of business. What's the
trick? Acquire them? Hostile take over? Nope, steal their automated
transport ships (hey, Class A, there was nobody onboard, so out with the
Class B) and then attack the living people at the mine and just restart
the operation when the new people are in place.

There was nobody there officer... [wake up] yeah, I though that was a
dream, no police in space...

Karell Ste-Marie
C.I.O. - BrainBank Inc.
From: Xenophile [mailto:xenophile2002@...]
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 7:44 AM
To: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [spacesettlers] Re: making money on asteroids

--- In spacesettlers, "Valens Agnitio" wrote:

> Why do people reference sci-fi books or movies as proof of
> concepts, ideas, or pre-conceptions?
>
> Val

'Cause its all we've got. Until this stuff is actually done, what
else is there to reference?

Xenophile (on the subject of eugenics, please see early chapters of
_Princess of Mars_ and middle/late chapters of _Lost on Venus_, both
by Edgar Rice Burroughs)