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To: John Menzies who wrote (3162)	8/5/1999 8:25:00 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) of 3744

No, not from me. Who needs money for drilling? We just collect cereal box tops and when we get then thousand we send away for our free Tom Swift Atomic Earth Borer. The TS Borer is faster than drilling and way cool because you get to take pictures of cave bats and groundhogs on the way down to the target. In order to get target information we use the Atomic Thing Locator. It uses the atomic signature of the elements to find concentrations and zeros in on them like radar. Finds lost kittens in trees too. I think the TS Element Radar was the precursor to the planet scanner used by Kirk on his missions to boldly go where no geophysical methods or remote sensor had gone before. We are just waiting for the price of DiLithium to come back in order to sell stock in our space mission. Speaking of Space missions, while I was trying to raise some money for a silly gold mine with silly unmmineable grades like 5.0 ounces gold per ton I see that our friend Jim Benson of Spacedev had raised some 10 million dollars for his project to mine the asteroids and launch a few satellites on the way. What he intended to mine he never said. Of course it must be economic if he intends to go all the way to the near earth asteroid belt to mine it! I would never question that. Scientists have it all figured out. I pointed out to him that grinding and pumping are very difficult in zero gravity with no atmosphere. (You cannot pump materials at all.) And dust is a huge accumulation problem as well as heat in bearings and motors. Building mills in space is hard as special metals are needed as well as lubricants and reagants. Flotation will not work. All mill processes must be reinvented. He never replied. I guess that stuff is all trivial to scientists. But a ramp with 5.0 ounces per ton. totally impractical. I shoulda been a space scientist. Then I could sell the sucker. Just put it on Mars and make the metal Beryllium for the new space fountain pen. EC<:-}

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