[TML] Noncanonical TU 3D.

[Knapp]

On Jan 8, 2008 4:45 AM, Thad Coons <tocoons at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/7/08, shadow at shadowgard.com <shadow at shadowgard.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Sorry, but the mining and refining techniques will be *well* known
> > from folks working in the outer parts of the solar system. Even with
> > reaction drives, the volatiles from comets and other icy bodies are
> > well worth going after.
> >
> > --
> > Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
> > shadow at shadowgard dot com
>
>
>
> Who's TU is this, anyway? 8-)  I don't have all that many people working in
> the outer parts of the solar system.  Not yet.
>
> I have a tendency to think things are harder than you might guess: Not
> impossible, but slow. Sort of like the problem of building an entire
> profitable private-sector space industry based on reusable vehicles...on a
> shoestring budget.
>
>  A universe built of pure armwavium just doesn't appeal to me.  One of the
> things holding me back is that I'm still exploring the economics of solar
> system development, so that I have some idea of what colonies have been
> developed, when, how big they are, and what industries they have developed.

I wonder how many people in the 60s would have guessed that space
tourism would be the first real drive to leave the planet that was not
fully government funded?
Douglas E Knapp