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From: jwm@stdc.jhuapl.edu (James W. Meritt)
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Subject: Re: Solar Power Satellites
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Date: 6 Apr 88 12:33:36 GMT
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In article <1834@ssc-vax.UUCP> eder@ssc-vax.UUCP (Dani Eder) writes:
:Allow me to introduce myself.  My name is Dani Eder.  In 1984 I had the
:pleasure of working on a study entitled "Design of a Solar Power Satellite
:Built of Lunar Materials".  The study was sponsored by the Space Studies
:Institute, headed by Dr. Gerard K. O'Neill.  He has done the most towards
:spreading the idea of SPSs.  One of our study advisors was Dr. Peter 
:Glaser, who invented the idea of an SPS.  Another was Gordon Woodcock,
:who helped found the L5 Society (now National Space Society), and was
:at that time head of the Space Station program at Boeing.  I joined
:the Boeing Company in 1981, one year after Boeing completed a major
:Study of SPSs for NASA.  This was one of two parallel studies, the other
:was performed by Rockwell International.
:
:The studies done in 1980 were the last to be funded by
:the US government.  Since I hired into the organization that did the
:studies, I know about half the people who worked on them.  I have about
:18 inches of shelf filled with study reports and information related
:to SPSs.  All of that said, I will try to address the subject of
:thermal balance brought up above.


Whoops!  Don't you know that interjecting facts from a qualified
person is the best way to mess up a good philosophical discussion!!?!?!?!?!?
;~)

Fortunately, we have at hand a number of people totally immune to reality,
so this one time you are forgiven!


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            Therefore, these opinions are mine and not any organizations!
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