Re: OT: future of a manned space exploration.
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Other way around - a precurser of the event had happened in the home dimension a few years later than the one in the attacked dimension. When it came around to the home dimension's turn, the ships (there were two of them, rather than one) were taken out in orbit by an intel project; they got passed off as meteorites that fell into the ocean.

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Geo and Loser... I know that is the way things are now, I am just thinking what if a Corp developed something that solved alot of the "cost of leaving orbit". I can see how hard it would be for the world public to let Corp X take total control of Mars or the Moon for that matter, but what if they took baby steps, claimed an asteroid, perhaps one of Jupiter's moons. HOW, could they inforce something that they could not get to? Much of our law is based on presidence, there are no one being conqured, and I could see Corp X laywer defend seizure of assets, he gets up with a wide grin "Na na na na, ownership is 9 tenths of the law, and since we are the only ones that has the tech to get up there, how you going to make us".

I just have a hard time bowing down to goverments that make laws like that, I mean if I wanted to take a rocket and go into space, I have to get clearence from the Air Force, geeze, who are they to say if I can go up or not?

ps sorry about the typos, in a hurry and this come dont have spell checker *sigh*

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Ah, yes. But if things continue in the way they have for a long time, that development will be so expensive and so financially risky that it will only be made with the assistance of a government.

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"lebensraum" is German for "living room" places to live. Made famous as a cause for WWII. The germans wanted lebensraum (and couldn't yet go into space to get it).

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Cool stuff :
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/23/sc...partner=GOOGLE

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I've figured, for a while now, that a space elevator was part of the Space Yard Facility. It seems pretty necessary.

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I tried to find the original, but all I could find was a Google Cached copy. This is an article I read a while back about one company trying to commercialize the moon by storing backup data there:

http://216.239.37.104/search?q=Cache...hl=en&ie=UTF-8

My only concern: If I have to restore my data from the moon, don't I have more to worry about than my data? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif I would think it would be more feasible to use the "four corners of the world".... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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i bookmarked that 'space elevator' one.