OT: future of a manned space exploration.

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Narrew:
I just cant see what anyone could do, with things the way they are now, there is no super power in space, I dont consider that space station nothing more than a novelty item. So couldn't someone just thumb their noses at anyone that tried to impose that treaty.

Beyond what Loser said, even if a corp could work out the technical hurdles to deal only with some back water country, any corporation with the resources to attempt such a venture is going to have significant assets in many different countries. Assests that are subject to seizure.

[Jack Simth]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
but, they indicated that they knew it was going to happen because something simalair had happened in the home dimension - although if it did, i missed it.

Other way around - a precurser of the event had happened in the home dimension a few years later than the one in the attacked dimension. When it came around to the home dimension's turn, the ships (there were two of them, rather than one) were taken out in orbit by an intel project; they got passed off as meteorites that fell into the ocean.

[Narrew]

Geo and Loser... I know that is the way things are now, I am just thinking what if a Corp developed something that solved alot of the "cost of leaving orbit". I can see how hard it would be for the world public to let Corp X take total control of Mars or the Moon for that matter, but what if they took baby steps, claimed an asteroid, perhaps one of Jupiter's moons. HOW, could they inforce something that they could not get to? Much of our law is based on presidence, there are no one being conqured, and I could see Corp X laywer defend seizure of assets, he gets up with a wide grin "Na na na na, ownership is 9 tenths of the law, and since we are the only ones that has the tech to get up there, how you going to make us".

I just have a hard time bowing down to goverments that make laws like that, I mean if I wanted to take a rocket and go into space, I have to get clearence from the Air Force, geeze, who are they to say if I can go up or not?

ps sorry about the typos, in a hurry and this come dont have spell checker *sigh*

[Loser]

Ah, yes. But if things continue in the way they have for a long time, that development will be so expensive and so financially risky that it will only be made with the assistance of a government.

[Parasite]

"lebensraum" is German for "living room" places to live. Made famous as a cause for WWII. The germans wanted lebensraum (and couldn't yet go into space to get it).

[oleg]

Cool stuff :
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/23/sc...partner=GOOGLE

[Loser]

I've figured, for a while now, that a space elevator was part of the Space Yard Facility. It seems pretty necessary.