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Re: Re: starship-design: build it now...
> I feel that the economic barrier to space access
> is really kind of artificial. It's a cover for control
> games, basically played by the big power governments
> which now have space access. The problem is that the
> powers that be, don't want people to go far enough
> from their physical jurisdictions, that they might
> get out of control. So the big power instinct, is to
> fake a desire for a manned space program ( on any
> significant scale ), while actually operating
> clandestinely to prevent any activity which could
> result in spontaneous migration into space.===
> === With the information revolution now a fact, odds
> are good someone will find a way to tunnel through
> the economic barrier, with the result that physical
> energy considerations, rather than economic illusions,
> will make up the bottleneck which limits the rate
> of human migration into the solar system.===
> === Only if the launch technique is so blatantly simple
> as to be inherently uncontrollable, will we get a portal
> to space in the forseeable future, a gateway through
> which large numbers of people can travel at will.===
>
> Johnny Thunderbird
Ah, your kinda contradicting yourself. If economics is a sham, why do folks
need to tunnel past it?
Realistically economics is THE issue. Technology is fairly simple and well
known, but no ones come up with a pressing and profitable reason to do it.
We're a wash in resources here, no places out there look like a great place
to live, all teched up and no where to go.
Kelly