ISLAND ONE, a prime time family sitcom set on the High Frontier

On 12/15/05, Xenophile wrote:
> I've posted the first part of the first ep in the FILES section. I'm
> thinking of putting the aerospaceport in Somalia or Kenya after all,
> as has been suggested, or perhaps at St. Peter & Paul Rocks, as in
> O'Neill's _2081_. The latter would still mean a mostly artificial
> structure, though.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Peter_and_Paul_Rocks

Well, if you are thinking about a Brazilian location like the rocks of
So Pedro and So Paulo, why not the already-existing Alcntara Base?
It is in the mainland and just two degrees from the Equator... You can
see a pic in this page of the Brazilian Space Agency -
http://samba.aeb.gov.br/conteudo.php?ida=27&idc=6 - though the text is
in Portuguese...

Talking about scifi references, in the book "Encounter with Tiber", in
a not-so-distant future a commercial spaceflight American company
rents Alcntara facilities for launching their stuff because of the
Equator proximity *and* cheaper Brazilian labor. Outsourcing of
spaceflight, so to speak.