On 10/25/2010 7:52 PM, Alan Erskine wrote:
On 26/10/2010 9:20 AM, Pat Flannery wrote:
Powered by microwaves or lasers from the ground...sounds a bit much from
a space agency that can't figure out how to get to the Moon on their
budget:

I think most people have lost faith in NASA by now. I personally am
waiting for private organisations to get there. I think privateers will
get there looooong before NASA does, more's the pitty.

Privateers? Space pirates?
"Argh, raise the solar sail and clear the lasers fer action me hearties;
it's after the Frenchie's lunar freighter, her hold brimming with helium
3, that we go today. A double ration of Tang fer the first man that lays
a magnetic cable on her, and then back to old England for our split of
the prize money, and all the pretty wenches in London."
....but little did the crew of the "Lady Diana's Revenge" suspect that
the French were waiting for them, and that the freighter "Milady de
Winter" was as full of cunning tricks as her namesake. ;-)

Pat