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stmx3 wrote:


Find a solid gold asteroid...then you'll have the killer app. Space
transportation would leap a century into the future.

Wouldn't work... The gold price would drop through the floorboards due
to the vast increase in supply; a SciFi author wrote a short story about
the devastating economic consequences of a solid gold meteorite of
fairly good size falling to Earth, that leads to the complete breakdown
of civilization- the story was called "Element 79" IIRC.



But, unless China makes plans to plant a flag on Mars, there's not
much out there other than the public imagination to give manned
spaceflight a purpose. And that's mainly driven by romantic musings
of the Apollo program.


Hmm...Commie Mars...The Red Planet...should have seen this one coming.

Pat
(At least not going to sleep by the light of a communist Moon.)

No, but going to sleep by the light of a Communist Mars? Well, that
would be a problem if you lived in Phobos...

Think about it...

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