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  4. From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
  5. Subject: Re: Question:How Long Until Privately Funded Space Colonization
  6. Message-ID: <C0Hvto.1u4@zoo.toronto.edu>
  7. Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:41:43 GMT
  8. References: <3954@key.COM> <ewright.726268414@convex.convex.com> <C0Ft56.Lxy@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1ig234INNs78@agate.berkeley.edu>
  9. Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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  12. In article <1ig234INNs78@agate.berkeley.edu> tyersome@toxic (Randall Tyers) writes:
  13. >In response to this question, a group called the Lunar Society appears
  14. >to be interested funding space colonization.  I would like to know
  15. >whether they are for real.  Does anyone know if this group is
  16. >legitimate and whether they have any chance of reaching their stated
  17. >goals?
  18.  
  19. The Lunar Society is for real, although I suppose you might call them
  20. the radical fringe of space colonization.  (A characterization that
  21. would probably give Jerry Pournelle apoplexy. :-))  It's an ambitious
  22. program and their chances of success are hard to assess, but they are
  23. neither joking nor crazy.
  24. -- 
  25. "God willing... we shall return."       | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
  26.        -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
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