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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Subject: Re: Question:How Long Until Privately Funded Space Colonization
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 21:13:34 GMT
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- In <3954@key.COM> rburns@key.COM (Randy Burns) writes:
-
- >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?
-
- Short answer: Soon after the we see privately financed space
- industrialization. Some opinions to the contrary, industry
- is not going to spend billions of dollars on space colonies
- until there's something for people to *do* there.
-
- And no, a few communications satellites don't count. To
- reiterate, industry is not going to spend billions of dollars
- on space colonies until there's something for *people* to do
- there.
-
- This assumes you mean a for-profit venture. It's possible
- that a charitable organization such as the National Geographic
- Society might foot the bill for a colony before industry has a
- need for it, but the cost of such a venture would be formidable.
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-