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From: dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Space colonies
Message-ID: <1989Jan20.101034.10384@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 20 Jan 89 15:10:33 GMT
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>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.

I consider orders of magnitude too expensive == inadequate by orders
of magnitude.

We don't need experience if that experience will not be applied for
decades.  Consider all the experience gained in Apollo, and subsequently
lost, because it wasn't "steam engine time".

	Paul F. Dietz
	dietz@cs.rochester.edu