Re: RE: RE: starship-design: scoops and sails and something to push against.

[KellySt@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/8/98 7:41:10 AM, lparker@cacaphony.net wrote:

>Kelly,
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>> I was with you Lee until the last paragraph.  Why would we start
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>> fleets of hundreds of ships?  We can't even figure out a
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>> compeling reason to
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>> launch one.  Certainly "a new chance on a new world" seems off.
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>> The one place
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>> we couldn't settle would be the planets, and if were staying in space
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>> platforms ther is no reason to leave this star system.
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>> What angle are you figuring on here?
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>At some point in time, whether it is fifty years from now or a hundred and
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>fifty, crossing the gulf between the stars will have become simple. I am not
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>making any predictions as to how, just that it will. At that point in time a
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>whole new set of driving factors comes in to play, factors that don't even
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>exist right now in some cases. When a slightly modified freighter or mining
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>ship can make the crossing, everybody and their brother WILL be going. I did
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>not mean it so much as a single agency or organization would be launching
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>fleets of ships, just that "fleets" of ships would be leaving.
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>Lee

Until you can figure out a why, I doubt there will be any more waves of ship
going out to colonize the stars then there are trying to colonize Antarctica
or te ocean floor.

kelly