Digest Number 856

Message: 20
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 02:37:46 -0000
From: "George Perkins"
Subject: 100+ Space Products

100+ Space Products and Services

001. Aluminum [Al]. Semiconductor.

[Huge Snip]

111. Much much more! Most everything made on earth can be made in
space at less cost.

http://www.cygo.com/prods.shtml

Your list of products is unconvincing at best. The first 30
"products" you list are elements; and you manage to entirely miss the
point that your market for these space products ought to be Terra (where
the buyers all live) - and Terra has strong markets in elements already.
The fact that you are obviously desperately grasping at straws is only
highlighted by your utterly transparent and microcephalic device of
listing several items twice - "product" 18 (platinum group metals) and
then Rhenium[Re] ("product" #20). Or Nitrogen ("product" #29) and
Hydrogen ("product" #30) and then Ammonia (NH3) ("product" #41); all the
while pretending that Terra would ever have to buy these from space
industry when there are AMPLE supplies of these here already. The same
goes for Iron, Iron Carbonyl, and Steel (which you list as separate
products - getting desperate to fill out your list?) and all of the
elements you list for making steel alloys - these would be for sale to
other space based interests, but would be useless as a product to export
for profit to Terra. Other "products" are in much the same difficulty,
or worse - you posit as "Products" techological devices not yet
delevoped, and of dubious feasibility, and proceed on wild and unfounded
flights of sheer delusion. Where could I possibly start a thoughtful
analysis, and not end up wasting even more time than you did?
Honestly, with this level of crapflooding, you're as bad a troll
as a Young Earth Creationist - and your 'arguments' are just as feeble
from lack of corroborating evidence. "Product" 111 is typical - and
once again unsubstantiated; I have before me an ordinary, yellow #2
pencil, manufactured by Mirado - how could it "be made in space at less
cost"? Or steak? Cellophane? Jell-o? Or the oak desk I am sitting
at?
That being said, there are a few things on your list which may
be worthwhile - energy generation, for example - but the time involved
in wading through the useless and tiresome fantasizing makes it an
effort not worth making. I feel quite comfortable dismissing your list
as utter rubbish, secure in the knowledge that anything worthwhile on it
is easily distinguishable from your own contributions - and has already
been thoroughly discussed.