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From: grwalter@watmath.waterloo.edu (Fred Walter)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Does this proprosal make sense ? (was RE: SPACE QUEST)
Message-ID: <27937@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 24 Jul 89 02:15:28 GMT
References: <27897@watmath.waterloo.edu> <20220@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: grwalter@watmath.waterloo.edu (Fred Walter)
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In article <20220@louie.udel.EDU> pezely@udel.EDU (Daniel Pezely) writes:
>In article <27897@watmath.waterloo.edu> grwalter@watmath.waterloo.edu (Fred Walter) writes:
>>The work would be done by the members; all money raised would be put back
>>into the organization to better the facilities/do R&D/etc. 

>I was hoping that people who could afford to spend their ?time? on something
>such as this, would do just that.

Someway of connecting these people together has to exist... or come into
existance. What sort of information does the existing space societies
collect on its members ? Do these space societies have mailouts to their
members that one could 'piggyback' on ? (By 'piggyback' I mean add a page or
two to the mailout describing the idea and asking for any needed info).

>we could have built massive space stations ten years ago with existing
>technology and have space for a population of 30,000.  That should be
>more true today.

Hmmmm. How much would such a station cost ? How much of that estimated cost
would be for labour/brain power (designing/etc) and how much for materials ?
If you had 30,000 people who were willing to try and build their own
station, how much would it cost/how long would it take ?

Are there any books/papers out there that look at these questions and try
to answer them ?

	fred