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From: dmocsny@uceng.UC.EDU (daniel mocsny)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Manned vs. unmanned
Summary: Have I got a Solar System Real Estate deal for you...
Message-ID: <588@uceng.UC.EDU>
Date: 20 Jan 89 04:53:18 GMT
References: <6145@thorin.cs.unc.edu> <1989Jan15.095906.18357@utzoo.uucp> <189@v7fs1.UUCP>
Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati, College of Engg.
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In article <189@v7fs1.UUCP>, mvp@v7fs1.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) writes:
> By the time we have spent the next two decades studying the
> question to death, all the desirable real estate in the solar
> system is likely to have been snapped up by the Soviets, French,
> Japanese, Chinese, Israelis, Indians, Canadians, Brazilians,
> Australians, and Indonesians.  (Have I missed any country with
> a space program?  If so, it's an oversight.)

Let's see here, this is 1989 as I read this statement. In the
next two decades no nation on earth is going to establish even one
self-sufficient off-earth colony*, much less "snap up" all the
desirable real estate in the solar system. I can only conclude one
of the following:

1. This posting is actually a message from some time in the 
indeterminate future, proving that time travel is possible, and
we had better start bracing for those paradoxes.

2. The solar system contains no desirable real estate beyond what
these nations can now occupy.

or perhaps another:

3. The author has already set his sights on some choice plot on,
say, Io, and is thus redefining "decade" in terms of the Jovian year.

Cheers,

Dan Mocsny
dmocsny@uceng.uc.edu

* I am not particularly happy about this fact, but I can think of
few that are so certain.