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Re: starship-design: Infrastructure in space [was: FTL travel...]
> From owner-starship-design@lists.uoregon.edu Sun Apr 23 04:00:31 2000
> From: KellySt@aol.com
>
> In a message dated 4/21/00 12:41:12 PM, zkulpa@zmit1.ippt.gov.pl writes:
>
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> >Exactly. It is the biggest problem on the way to make mankind
> >a truly spacefaring civilization. One possibility seems to be
> >a happy event of some new space industry popping up - such that
> >it is profitable up front, as operated from Earth, but at some time
> >of its development it is found to become even more profitable
> >when it starts using space resources - enough so to justify
> >the next big investment in, say, asteroid mining or something.
> >What kind of an industry it could be?
> >Nobody knows as for now, I am afraid. Clarke back in the fifties
> >thought it will be large manned geosynchronous commsats - but it
> >fizzled, as miniaturization, automation, and reliability of
> >electronics made human crews redundant. Currently many look with
> >hope towards space tourism - but I am not so sure here...
>
> What are your concerns about space tourism? Its currently the mostlikely
> reason to develop major space launch infastructure and orbital facilities?
>
My concern is that it may be not enough of a reason to start all that.
Let us cross our fingers, though...
-- Zenon Kulpa