Digest Number 79

You are right about the $1/kg launch cost, but I was simply contniuing
the fantasy.

As for the backers, would the mafia be interested in changing US drug
policy. You have a hidden assumption that this have to be legitamate.
We are talking about violating treaties anyway. So the people
interested would be on the FBI's most wanted list.

Bill

--- In spacesettlers@egroups.com, "Clements, Robert"
wrote:
> I think you need to listen to your self before casting aspertions on
anyone
> else: clearly, you've never done any serious financing. The first
thing you
> need in order to convince a backer that you know what you're doing
is
> unambiguous title; & the merest whiff that a title can't be enforced
will be
> more than enough to bury your fantasies. There are a number of
strategies
> which can be followed to break an illegal investment of the kind
proposed
> here; but the simplest would be to tie the investment up in
litigation... it
> doesn't matter whether the litigation is justified or not - all you
need to
> do is break the line of credit which finances it.
>
> As there are no launch systems capable of delivering payload to
orbit for $1
> per kg & no emergent technologies even threatening to deliver
results in
> that order of magnitude anytime soon, the rest of your post is
purest SF....
>
> All the best,
> Robert Clements
>
> > Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:57:16 -0000
> > From: "bill t"
> > Subject: Re: Asteroid use
> >
> > Listen to yourselves. Anyone capable of building a colony
independant
> > of any government isn't going to care about treaties. What is
anyone
> > going to do?
> >
> > If your in a position to threaten the destruction of large cities,
> > which any independant power in space can do, everyone will
continue to
> > turn a blind eye to the legalities.
> >
> > If you can build a launch system at $1 kg you could easily start
> > building infrastructure in space in secret until you were very
close