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From: myers@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Bob Myers)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Space Resources
Message-ID: <16520003@hpfcdj.HP.COM>
Date: 10 Feb 89 19:24:38 GMT
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   > L-volume and aprox 1 second to the other L-volume and Earth. Since space
   > is frictionless, transportation between any two points in this matrix
   > would be almost nothing. This would end phase 1 of Solar system
   > development according to Criswell.

Space may be "frictionless", but that doesn't make travelling in space cheap.
As Saint Isaac pointed out, if you start to go in one direction, you're
gonna keep it up.  The expensive part?  Can you say "delta-vee"?


Bob Myers            | "Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but  
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