Posted on 04/10/2005 4:59:25 AM PDT by KevinDavis
"There has to be another reason for this. Water rights? Minerals? Land speculation?"
Lawyer fees are cheaper when a rocket explodes over cactus and mesquite barrens than when one goes bang over suburbia.
Plus, it's real close to a source of cheap labor.
MARFA LIGHTS YOU FOOLS!!!!
Chinese.
We have those in NC too. They call them the Brown Mountain Lights.
Good location for a space port...
Well, if you invest it might make you money and that would help you achieve your second goal.
Shouldn't that be laid to death?
Yes folks there was an unearthly glow in the sky as Robert Goddard developed and flew his rockets. Thanks to Charles Lindbergh and the Guggenheims, Mankind's Trek to the Stars would find its beginnings here.
No, there is sometimes snow in Van Horne. Not a lot, though. Had some this Christmas, I believe.
Van Horne was selected because: it is in the middle of nowhere. You can crash a rocket in a 100 mile radius and hit nothing. The New Mexico desert to the NW was selected to blow up atomic bombs for a reason.
In fact, Van Horne pretty much consists of a Holiday Inn and two gas stations. Lots of illegal aliens (not the green kind) and drug runners. Border control stop in Eagle Pass (home of the inventor of the Nacho, BTW).
The closet cities of any size in El Paso in the West and Midland in the East.
That said, it IS on a major freeway (really 2: I-10 and I-20) that go through the town and a railway. Supplying an operation would be easy.
You'd have radar and technology support from White Sands and Ft. Bliss nearby ("nearby" in relative West Texas, nearby.
No water. No oil. Nothing. That's why it was selected.
There's nothing to blow up with a missle.
Way cool.
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