Mars and Island One

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Combs, Mike"

> That's a good point. When you think about it, it's a darned shame
> Earth doesn't have a Deimos-like satellite within spitting
> distance of GEO. We'd probably have SPS from space resources
> already.

While most of us would sanction the consumption of a small moonlet,
the Gaians would go ballistic at the destruction of Mother Nature's
gift to us. To transform a *natural* moonlet into a O'Neill Habitat
monstrosity would get them all riled up.

TangoMan