Lets hope their endeavors are successful. On the dark side - imagine a
whole load of multimillionaires -?
Mickey
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From: Gary McMurtry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 11:49 AM
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Subject: Re: Buran back in business?
Ah
Question: If you could accellerate the earth by a few feet per second to
make its orbit a little larger (and more elliptical...) would you also have
to accellerate the moon to prevent a future collision? What would moving
earth do to the orbit of the Moon? Or from another perspective, say you
In reply to man someday finding and using resources from moons, asteroids
and other worlds. I don't think anyone will be able to do that until there
is a population center living "off-world". Maybe in O'Neals colonies or on
Moon or Mars. The cost of bringing them (resources) to earth is not
Welcome aboard Thomas Howarth I for one look forward to your contributions
to this group.
Mickey Schmidt
USAF Academy
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Good questions and many have tried to think of logical means to do the
communication. Using coded files, using the "water hole" frequencies, etc.
Sagan and others speculated onthe period of time a civilization might even
be interested in communications. I have my opinions as to the "right"
Alien Voyagers could be zipping past the solar system as we write. The fact
we have a hard time finding objects (NEO's) 1km in diameter a few million
miles of earth would indicate that locating a 3-4 meter silent spacecraft
missing the solar system by billions of miles would indicate that its
