http://blog.nss.org/?p=1092 Blogging for the creation of a spacefaring civilization Tue, 21 May 2013 21:19:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://blog.nss.org/?p=1092&cpage=1#comment-1653 tony rusi Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:23:39 +0000 http://blog.nss.org/?p=1092#comment-1653 Embrace private enterprise. Use a prize system to encourage R&D. Forget flags and footprints. Go to stay. Plan to colonize not create media events. Look at Colossal Carbon Tubes for a stationary space elevator system to minimize the cost to LEO and GEO. Look at Vactrains to get to the elevators on earth. Immediately start to put water ice on the moon and mars to create 2 psi oxygen atmospheres on both planets. Zuppero's nuclear steam rockets should be built to go get the ice from neo's and the oort cloud like Chiron. Embrace private enterprise. Use a prize system to encourage R&D. Forget flags and footprints. Go to stay. Plan to colonize not create media events. Look at Colossal Carbon Tubes for a stationary space elevator system to minimize the cost to LEO and GEO. Look at Vactrains to get to the elevators on earth. Immediately start to put water ice on the moon and mars to create 2 psi oxygen atmospheres on both planets. Zuppero’s nuclear steam rockets should be built to go get the ice from neo’s and the oort cloud like Chiron.

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