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To: Dayuhan who wrote (27828)	1/9/1999 7:04:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 108807

In all fairness - getting ammonia etc. from space to schlep it to Earth isn't the point. Building working colonies/societies in space is. If space propulsion really truly does get cheap - we will have the entire system to build on, except those pristine swaths the statist collectivist mystic conspiracy of intellectual oppressors wisely sees fit to set apart as parkland, out of the hands of cosmic prospectors. The real value of every square meter of Earth is as a piece of a fully mature and breathtakingly beautiful biosphere. In five hundred years, when we are sovereigns of everything inside the Kuiper belt and are extending tentative fingers toward the nearer stars - Earthland will be too damn expensive to own privately. The Libertarian fringe simply won't admit to valuating what is now cheap but will someday be perhaps beyond price. (Perhaps not. I do hope that genetic engineers will soon make dodo and small dinosaurs affordable enough to BBQ.) I am also one who breathlessly awaits affordable Delta Vee, the essence of useful space travel. But I'm not willing to treat Old Dirt as a paper diaper on our way to the higher rungs of the gravity well.