myths

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, Ed Minchau
>
> --- "Omar E. Vega" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > > Please go and join the group of people over there
> > who said space
> > >travel,
> > > heavier than air flight, radio, the lightbulb, the
> > printing press
> > >and
> > > (probably) the wheel were all either impossible or
> > a waste of
> > >time.
> >
> > Do you see? You believe in myths. "The fountain of
> > the ethernal
> > youth". What's next : "El dorado"?
> >
> El Dorado is a very good myth. It will be the myth
> that brings a big wave of settlers to space.
>
> Suppose for instance that a company sends a similar
> payload to several asteroids, full of robots and tools
> and other equipment. Each payload lands on (or docks
> with) an asteroid, releases the bots and starts
> sampling.
>
> Most asteroids they visit will contain economically-
> interesting compositions. But suppose that on one
> asteroid gold is found. Imagine the media reaction.
> It would start a gold rush into the asteroids.
>
> ... and I want to be the guy selling shovels.
>
havent you heard, most of them have some gold in them.