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Date: 18 Jun 91 17:27:19 GMT
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In article <31516@hydra.gatech.EDU> ccoprmd@prism.gatech.EDU (Matthew DeLuca) writes:

>Communications satellites are a pretty loose defintion of 'industry'; I 
>am not terribly impressed by an example that uses passive objects in high 
>orbit that do little more than bounce and amplify signals sent from the 
>ground.  

Interesting.  This ("loosely" defined :-) self-sustaining industry is $6 
billion per year. The proposed El Dorado platinum mining would be $3
billion per year.  CNN, MTV, News Corp., TV network communications, direct 
broadcast TV and radio, Ted Turner, Rupert Murdoch, international telephone 
calls, data communications, wire services, the international legs of
USENET, etc.  Not terribly impressive.

Now that's special. 


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