Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watcgl!electro!ignac
From: ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: 1992 moon base
Message-ID: <306@electro.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 89 14:41:58 GMT
References: <1989Feb13.074530.17504@cs.rochester.edu> <1989Feb14.171358.17916@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko)
Organization: Electrohome Ltd., Kitchener, ON
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In article <1989Feb14.171358.17916@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <1989Feb13.074530.17504@cs.rochester.edu> dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz) writes:
>>Wonderful, Henry.  Lunar colonies (= a handful of people huddled
>>underground) are feasible if you don't have to pay for little things
>>like labor, materials or launchers...
>
>Not quite what I said, which was that a startup lunar colony was very cheap,
>and looked feasible *BY 1992*, if most of the big-ticket items were donated.
>(As for "a handful of people huddled underground", most of the early colonies
>in North America started with not much more, especially after the first
>winter.)


don't snicker too loudly just yet. i think it was arthur c. clarke
who wrote in the intro to 2001: a space oddysey that all the money the u.s.
spent on the useless war in vietnam, if it was rechanelled into the space
program, everything he had described in the book could have been easily
realizable today.

in all cases, i wish he was right.


-- 
Ignac A. Kolenko          watmath!watcgl!electro!ignac      

"Perhaps if we built this large wooden badger ..."
   - from Monty Python and the Holy Grail