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To: longnshort who wrote (79359)	5/7/2007 4:10:22 PM
From: cirrus	Respond to of 93284

That's great. And I'm sure there will be more. I read somewhere that there is even a private superhighway in France, their socialist leanings notwithstanding. I doubt that would have happened in 1955 when the first superhighways were on the drawing boards. There were just too many unknowns back then. Same with space flight. Now that the government has put people and stuff into orbit for 40 years and developed the technology to do it with some regularity, private firms are entering the field and turning it into the business. That's how things are supposed to work. Government takes the cutting edge and leaves when the project becomes commercially viable.