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Well, GB i don't really know - maybe, but like most things space related you may be a bit early. How about we team up to build a new spaceport, that would put those construction workers back to work. Thinking maybe North Carolina or Georgia on the coast. Then build some hotels and maybe a themepark around it. Royce On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 3:35 PM, G B Leatherwood <
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: Royce & William, Now we're getting somewhere! Royce, you're absolutely right about needing a solid business plan to produce something that people want and that will make a profit. If people don't know they want it the desire must be created
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Well, GB i don't really know - maybe, but like most things space related you may be a bit early. How about we team up to build a new spaceport, that would put those construction workers back to work. Thinking maybe North Carolina or Georgia on the coast. Then build some hotels and maybe a themepark around it. Royce On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 3:35 PM, G B Leatherwood <
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: Royce & William, Now we're getting somewhere! Royce, you're absolutely right about needing a solid business plan to produce something that people want and that will make a profit. If people don't know they want it the desire must be created
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Well, GB i don't really know - maybe, but like most things space related you may be a bit early. How about we team up to build a new spaceport, that would put those construction workers back to work. Thinking maybe North Carolina or Georgia on the coast. Then build some hotels and maybe a themepark around it. Royce On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 3:35 PM, G B Leatherwood <
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: Royce & William, Now we're getting somewhere! Royce, you're absolutely right about needing a solid business plan to produce something that people want and that will make a profit. If people don't know they want it the desire must be created
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Well, GB i don't really know - maybe, but like most things space related you may be a bit early. How about we team up to build a new spaceport, that would put those construction workers back to work. Thinking maybe North Carolina or Georgia on the coast. Then build some hotels and maybe a themepark around it. Royce On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 3:35 PM, G B Leatherwood <
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: Royce & William, Now we're getting somewhere! Royce, you're absolutely right about needing a solid business plan to produce something that people want and that will make a profit. If people don't know they want it the desire must be created
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Well, GB i don't really know - maybe, but like most things space related you may be a bit early. How about we team up to build a new spaceport, that would put those construction workers back to work. Thinking maybe North Carolina or Georgia on the coast. Then build some hotels and maybe a themepark around it. Royce On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 3:35 PM, G B Leatherwood <
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the center, and collapse in conflict. Societies that embrace their frontiers enter a period of improved cooperation as all join together to make use of the abundant resources of the frontier. For too long we have ignored our common frontier and have told ourselves that it is too difficult, too costly, too complex to contribute meaningfully to our present situation. This attitude of neglect is the attitude of a culture in decline. I have prepared a series of presentations in an effort to change this attitude and inspire in those who view them the idea that we can develop resources off-world to meaningfully improve our conditions on Earth today. We have the ability, and for the past fifty years have had the ability, to do whatever we want in the solar system. The resources of the entire solar system is available to us today. The resources of many entire worlds are available to us today. With these resources there is really no need to live with shortages of any sort. Here is how we can proceed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I81ogcX3ONY&feature=PlayList&p=838BBE4... 1) communications - global wireless hotspot. 2) energy - power satellites 3) materiel - raw materials imported from asteroids to Earth orbit 4) manufacturing - orbiting solar powered tele-operated factories 5) diaspora - ultra-low-cost laser propulsion broadly available 6) space homes 7) interstellar commerce The first steps use conventional chemical rockets configured for 2,000 to 3,000 uses at low recurring costs. Importing materiel from the asteroid belt involves dispatching to the asteroids survey teams, and the means to return the richest materials found. Manufacturing on orbit involves sending up teleoperated solar powered factory elements to process returned asteroids into useful products. Once a core capability is on orbit it can grow in complexity and size with very little support from Earth - other than teleoperation signals. At this point materials and goods rain down from orbit directly to end users everywhere on Earth. The development of laser propelled rockets, supported by intense laser beams generated by solar pumped lasers on orbit, allow the creation of very capable very safe and very low-cost ballistic vehicles, both for travel between points on Earth in minutes, and to orbit and back. Once low-cost access to orbit is as common as automobiles in America in the present-day, space homes join the growing industrial infrastructure on orbit. The development of very powerful laser light sails allow us to easily and inexpensively move individual space homes beyond Earth orbit, and even beyond the solar system. This could all be completed within the next 35 years. This could have all been completed within the past 35 years. There is no new technology required, only application of existing techniques appropriate to the environment and task at hand.
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42-year-old Anne Quemere marched today from San Fancisco and intends to cross the Pacific. None kitesurfer have not yet done. 
