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From: kevin@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Kevin S. Van Horn)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Space colonies
Message-ID: <9162@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Date: 19 Jan 89 18:17:16 GMT
References: <1989Jan18.160559.2021@cs.rochester.edu>
Reply-To: kevin@cit-vax.UUCP (Kevin S. Van Horn)
Organization: California Institute of Technology
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In article <1989Jan18.160559.2021@cs.rochester.edu>
dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz) writes:
>[...] I consider it obvious that existing
>technology is inadequate by orders of magnitude to the task of
>building a space colony.

According to my sources existing technology *is* more or less adequate
to the task of building space colonies -- at least there are no
"show-stoppers" --, it's just that they're not *affordable*.  What's
needed is cheaper space transportation, more experience working in
space, and a good economic motive for building them.

Kevin S. Van Horn