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Notes by Bigelow Aerospace CEO Robert Bigelow for his address to the members of the 2011 International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS) in Las Cruces, New Mexico on 19 October 2011.

This document has been edited by me for grammar and legibility. Mistakes and emphases are mine. The verbatim text may be found at link (above).

An edited video of Bigelow's speech

Analysis

1 posted on 11/04/2011 8:43:12 PM PDT by Space Patrol Hoppa
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To: Space Patrol Hoppa

Really, I though some kid in grade school wrote it.


2 posted on 11/04/2011 9:00:19 PM PDT by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow demorats.)
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To: Space Patrol Hoppa

Would make a good computer simulation game.


3 posted on 11/04/2011 9:22:41 PM PDT by Nowhere Man ("People should not fear their government, their government should fear the people." - V for Vendetta)
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To: Space Patrol Hoppa

I think Red China is and could be a big threat to us, but there is another side where I wonder if there is one keystone in their system that if pulled, will cause them to collapse.


4 posted on 11/04/2011 9:25:32 PM PDT by Nowhere Man ("People should not fear their government, their government should fear the people." - V for Vendetta)
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To: Space Patrol Hoppa

China can’t own the moon - it’s already owned by someone else:
from ehow:
“Land on the moon is sold through two main agencies: The Lunar Embassy, and the Lunar Republic. Both sell land by the acre, but provide different bonuses to sweeten the deal: whereas the Lunar Republic provides both a deed and a satellite photograph of your property, the Lunar Embassy provides a copy of the story, ‘You Own the What?”

Read more: How to Buy Land on the Moon | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_2321919_buy-land-moon.html#ixzz1cnrBt3A5


5 posted on 11/04/2011 9:53:53 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: Space Patrol Hoppa
Except for basic science and tourism, human beings will do no productive work in space for centuries, and probably millennia.

Besides the moon and Mars, there's no place to go.

Venus? Atmospheric pressure is 90 times Earth's and highly corrosive.

Mercury? Ultra hot, ultra cold, and lethal solar radiation.

Asteroids? Zero gravity makes construction or mining impossible.

Jupiter's moons? Bathed in Jupiter's lethal radiation belt and subject to massive gravitational stress.

There are no current technologies that protect against long term exposure to zero-G, cosmic rays, and solar wind.

Finally, the Environmental Left will NEVER allow large scale commercial mining in space.

6 posted on 11/04/2011 11:35:01 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: Space Patrol Hoppa

bflr


8 posted on 11/05/2011 1:39:06 AM PDT by Captain Beyond (The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
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To: Space Patrol Hoppa

I mean, we must be... increasingly on the alert to prevent them from taking over other mineshaft space, in order to breed more prodigiously than we do, thus, knocking us out in superior numbers when we emerge! Mr. President, we must not allow... a mine shaft gap!


9 posted on 11/05/2011 2:21:34 AM PDT by Lockbox (`)
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To: Space Patrol Hoppa
China has many problems not mentioned: such as desertification that is taking more areas out of production, lack of several key minerals that have to be imported, a huge population making increased demands upon
resources, an inadequate transportation system.
11 posted on 11/05/2011 12:42:19 PM PDT by upcountryhorseman (An old fashioned conservative)
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