h (Rand Simberg) wrote in message ...
On Sun, 06 Jul 2003 17:22:35 GMT, in a place far, far away, trakar
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:


Personally, I'd like to see how the figure is that low, that is
generally agreed to be the US cost, but I've heard estimates that
exceed 200B for the total cost of ISS.

The cost of ISS has absolutely no relevance to the cost of building a
Stanford Torus. It had unique requirements, few of which had anything
to do with actually building a space station, or saving money.

If it had been important to do so, for some reason, we could have
easily had ten or a hundred times the space station for less money
than ISS.

Building a Stamford Torus will provide a role for the space shuttle
well into the next century!