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Subject: re: Interplanetary Migration for population control
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Date: Tue, 20-Sep-83 03:50:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 20 03:50:00 1983
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From:  Robert Elton Maas <REM @ MIT-MC>

You are arguing a red herring. Nobody (in hir right mind) would
propose building millions of spacecraft on Earth and sending them up
once and never bringing them back for reuse, when a shuttle exists as
an alternative. The idea is to reuse shuttles many times, like
commercial airliners, to transport people in large numbers from Earth
to space stations. At that point the people may move into new space
habitats which are built in space out of space-found materials, or may
be moved to other places in spaceships built again out of space-found
materials.