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- From: rburns@key.COM (Randy Burns)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Question:How Long Until Privately Funded Space Colonization
- Message-ID: <3954@key.COM>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 22:02:50 GMT
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Advanced Systems, Fremont CA
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- What are the current estimates of folks in this newsgroup of how long it
- will be until the world starts to see privately funded space colonization?
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- I've noticed that there are some _extremely_ capital intensive schemes around
- which might make the marginal cost of launching mass to orbit fairly cheap.
- (I'm thinking of mechanisms like Clarke's space "elevator" or Bull's
- gun). I'm more interested in technologies like the Henson Sling or SSTO
- technology that might be more useful to private citizens and less likely to
- be shelved or monopolized by governments or mega-corps.
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- Thanks!
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