How to fill a new Habitat?

Less body stress and therefor longer potential life span in Space...

THAT is probably the best thought ever on what will populate Space... self preservation ands mortality is a STRONG motivator, and with the graying of the world, a serious consideration for many is life extension and quality of Life. It would NOT be industrial production or "workers" for the most part, (except for those servicing the older residents need, and only those needs that could not be done remotely by automation or robotics, so that the expertise stays primarily on Earth...(example being telemedical treatments, operations etc. instead of having actual human medical specialist in orbit). . A rich retiree cashing out of there investments onEarth is not so critical of the cost as a younger person would be, as long as they had all the comforts they desire...and the amount of cubic footage is also not as critical to a retiree, again as long as the space they DO have is extremely comfortable.

In addfition, many of these older capitalist earn money from brain power and knowledge, bith of which are not location sensative as long as good communication systems are in place, which of course they would be in an orbital environment. They could adjust their lifestyle to the time zone of their preference not being tied into a specific locations sunrise or sunset.

I do see energy production or rather energy redirection and repackaging into useable units for the population on Earth.This would be one area that Space has a competative advantage due to atmosphere cutting down solar energy and the rotation of the Earth limiting hours of operation.

From: Richard
To: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 9:54 PM
Subject: [spacesettlers] Re: How to fill a new Habitat?

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophile"
wrote:
> OK. Let's take the mortgage idea and run with it.
>
> 10,000 people... Make it 3,000 housholds of one to four people each
> (maybe a five-person family or two in there, off-set by several
> singles). So 3,000 home-owners. Each of them sells his/her/their
> house and barrows 100,000 buckaroonies in the form 30-year mortgages.
> If the houses are 150,000 bucks each, then each of these 3,000
> investors is contributing a quarter-million dollars.
>
> 250,000 * 3,000 = $750,000,000
>
> Is this enough to finance an Island One? Well, it isn't enough to go
> from "at last, it's starting to happen" to the first 10,000 folks
> moving in, but after the first few are built? Or how about 3,000
> multi-millionares each plucking down $10 million? There are plenty of
> multi-millionares who have spent $10 million on a home.
>
> For an Island Three, make it 100,000 multi-miilionares.
>
> Xenophile (not a multi-millionare, but has watched enough TV to know
> the sort of moolah they throw around on homes and yachts and such)

And how much more for a home where you would live years longer? There
is a stronger possibility that under lower gravity, you would live longer.

Your heart literally fights gravity all your life. My mother died
because her heart gave out on her. I had a heart attack 6 weeks ago
and have trouble walking.

Like a fish in water, we take gravity forgranted.

We might end up with a separate race of low gravity people that could
never live on Earth again. But they might well think that they have
the better of the exchange.

The rich might live long lives in low gravity while the poor have a
short, brutish existence deep with a gravity well.

Rick Brooks