From: schaefer@sal-sun121.usc.edu (Peter Schaefer)
Subject: Re: Why not give $1 billion to first year-long moon residents?
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In article <1993Apr19.130503.1@aurora.alaska.edu>, nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu writes:
|> In article <6ZV82B2w165w@theporch.raider.net>, gene@theporch.raider.net (Gene Wright) writes:
|> > With the continuin talk about the "End of the Space Age" and complaints 
|> > by government over the large cost, why not try something I read about 
|> > that might just work.
|> > 
|> > Announce that a reward of $1 billion would go to the first corporation 
|> > who successfully keeps at least 1 person alive on the moon for a year. 
|> > Then you'd see some of the inexpensive but not popular technologies begin 
|> > to be developed. THere'd be a different kind of space race then!
|> > 
|> > --
|> >   gene@theporch.raider.net (Gene Wright)
|> > theporch.raider.net  615/297-7951 The MacInteresteds of Nashville
|> ====
|> If that were true, I'd go for it.. I have a few friends who we could pool our
|> resources and do it.. Maybe make it a prize kind of liek the "Solar Car Race"
|> in Australia..
|> Anybody game for a contest!
|> 
|> ==
|> Michael Adams, nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu -- I'm not high, just jacked


Oh gee, a billion dollars!  That'd be just about enough to cover the cost of the
feasability study!  Happy, Happy, JOY! JOY!

Peter F. Schaefer
