Xref: utzoo sci.astro:14164 sci.electronics:21221 sci.physics:20477 sci.research:1771 sci.aeronautics:2327 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!mcsun!ukc!harrier.ukc.ac.uk!hobby.ukc.ac.uk!has From: has@ukc.ac.uk (H.A.Shaw) Newsgroups: sci.astro,sci.electronics,sci.physics,sci.research,sci.aeronautics Subject: Re: Excavating (minig) gold in the space by NASA. Message-ID: <350@hobby.ukc.ac.uk> Date: 27 Jun 91 16:21:46 GMT References: <10265.28560852@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu> <1991Jun12.184554.4558@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Reply-To: has@ukc.ac.uk (H.A.Shaw) Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Lines: 16 In article <1991Jun12.184554.4558@watdragon.waterloo.edu> jdnicoll@watyew.uwaterloo.ca (James Davis Nicoll) writes: > > Heh. Lets announce that there exists a plausible, cheap, >available to get the GA , and buy gold cheap while the panic lasts. > I'm sure I suggested some time ago that the gold (and other metals) producers in the world (South Africa, USSR, etc...) would pay NASA well NOT to bring a gold baring asteroid back to Earth and flood the market. Remember that blackmail is an old tradition in the world of the free market :-( > James Nicoll Email: has@ukc.ac.uk | Howard Allan Shaw. | The Unit for Space Science. Phone: +44 227 764000 Extn: 3785 | Room 165, Physics Laboratory, | The University, (nobody cares what I say anyway!) | Canterbury, England. CT2 7NR