To: NicknamedBob
It is much more practical to try to capture the asteroid into a safe orbit, so that its materials can be used for space exploration. Of course that is what we will do. Not even Congress would waste such resources that would make a manned lunar base possible and even self-sufficient. Would they?
31 posted on
07/04/2005 5:09:38 PM PDT by
RightWhale
(withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty)
To: RightWhale
"Would they?" In a heartbeat. But H. H. Harriman wouldn't.
32 posted on
07/04/2005 5:16:09 PM PDT by
NicknamedBob
(Mighty and enduring? They are but toys of the moment to be overturned by the flicking of a finger.)
To: RightWhale
Hmm. Maybe that was supposed to be D. D. Harriman.
Robert Heinlein's billionaire character who was "The Man Who Sold The Moon."
34 posted on
07/04/2005 5:23:35 PM PDT by
NicknamedBob
(Mighty and enduring? They are but toys of the moment to be overturned by the flicking of a finger.)
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