[extropy-chat] balloon stations at the edge of space

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org
> [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org]On Behalf Of Mike Lorrey
> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 1:48 PM
> To: ExI chat list
> Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] balloon stations at the edge of space
> --- Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:
> > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5025388/
> >
>
> An extremely interesting story. Reminds me of the part of Heinlein's
> "The Number of the Beast when the Burroughs visited a universe where
> Mars was colonized by Victorian-British and Russians who attained space
> travel via balloons....

I was thinking that this technology will enable for a viable new frontier.
If it pans out, there's nothing stopping small self-organized groups from
bringing up soil, plants, etc and putting entire cities thirty miles up over
international waters, built one piece at a time. A come-as-you-are sort of
affair, very enabling for libertarians if the price point for hoisting a
moderate self-sufficient living unit falls low enough.

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