[extropy-chat] The other space program

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:48:55AM -0700, Adrian Tymes wrote:
> > --- Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> > > Who's going to build the microwave
> > > stations on the ground to
> > > track the craft as it goes around the Earth?
> > 

Whoever develops the technology of course. Whether they can get lease
and flyover rights from every paranoid nation on the planet is another
story entirely...
>  
> > > The Dark Sky station is as close to LEO as
> > > SpaceshipOne. I.e., not at all.
> > 
> > *shrugs*  Doesn't mean it isn't useful in its own
> > right.  If they can solve the engineering issues of
> > floating serious payload at high altitudes...floating
> > cities, anyone?
> 
> What is the economic value of a floating city?

Earth observation, communications, military high ground.

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Mike Lorrey
Chairman, Free Town Land Development
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                         -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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