<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><b>Acknowledgments</b><br> <br>I ended up only having a day to prepare this talk. So of necessity I flipped between many sources on and offline to get information to compile. I cribbed mercilessly. I would like to flesh this<br>information out so any help from those of you more knowledgeable, especially you real rocket scientists and astrophysicists, would be much appreciated. :)<br> <br>Some sources I used:<br> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Entering-Space-Creating-Spacefaring-Civilization/dp/1585420360/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272155991&sr=8-1">Entering Space</a> - Robert Zubrin<br> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mining-Sky-Untold-Asteroids-Planets/dp/0201328194/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272156440&sr=8-1">Mining the Sky</a> - John S. Lewis<br> <br>Wikipedia<br> <br><a href="http://neat.jpl.nasa.gov/">NEAR-EARTH ASTEROID TRACKING </a><br><br><a href="http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/neo/">Near Earth Objects</a><br><br><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=5&ved=0CBsQFjAE&url=http://szyzyg.arm.ac.uk/~spm/neo_map.html&ei=yn_TS6WKEoeiswOTxLyNCg&usg=AFQjCNEnKvIkUtfZObEcSwnpXYb9-rdArQ&sig2=yCjmdBIY4a7uJJ8EkwK35g">Near Earth Objects Map</a><br><br><a href="http://daviddarling.info/">Internet Encyclopedia of Science</a><br><br>and especially the wonderful site:<br><br><a href="http://www.permanent.com/">Permanent: Asteroid mining, space colonies, commercialization</a><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>- samantha (aka Serendipity)</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.permanent.com/"></a></div></body></html>