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From: omar vega [mailto:oevega@...]

"In the "High Frontier" O'Neill mention that the source
of his ideas is Tsiolkowski, the russian pioneer."

True, and he's one of the few who give Konstantin Tsiolkowski anywhere near
the credit he deserves. My point was more about Clarke putting the same
ideas into print, just a couple of years before O'Neill's group started
researching his "Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding
technological civilization?" question. So, it makes me wonder if Clarke's
book didn't play a role in pulling some of the ideas of O'Neill's group
together, or influence/inspire some of the group.

Dave