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>there is a sizable portion, perhaps even a majority of us, who start from
>the basic assumption that High Frontier (in even the most minimalist
>fashion) will be built for economic reasons.

Hear hear. I for one am hoping to some day see a public stock offering in a
company that will launch micro- or mini-factories to produce O2, H2, H2O,
sand, concrete, steel plate, etc., in orbit, from Near-Earth Asteroids or
whatever they can find.

I'd invest in a nano. Because between the Marsophiles, the O'Neillites,
Bigelow Aerospace and the ISS, there's a present and future market assured,
and at a very atttractive price per kilogram. Such a company could pay off
its launch costs in a decade, and be making pure profit for 200 years out,
not to mention providing an inestimable service to mankind by facilitating
its space-based future.

Doing well by doing good--the new space economy.

BradW