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Subject: comments on failed technologies
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Date: Thu, 27-Oct-83 03:47:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 27 03:47:00 1983
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From:  Robert Elton Maas <REM @ MIT-MC>

You may be correct. Perhaps at this time we should concentrate on
novel applications (x-ray telscopes, true zero-gee science-fiction
movies, ...) and existing applications that are much too expensive
when done on Earth (pure pharmaceuticals, ...) and leave the more
mundane things (bulk platinum from the Moon, energy from the Sun
beamed or fuel-delivered to Earth, ...) for later after we've
established a foothold in space.