Posted on 11/28/2006 8:31:03 PM PST by KevinDavis
It was somewhere amid the kitchens and closets that I caught a glimpse of humanity's future beyond the Earth.
For better and worse, I tend to be a "big picture" sort of person. One aspect of this is my longstanding interest in space exploration and astronomy, subjects about which I have written frequently at TCS and elsewhere. The everyday, smaller-scale type of "space"—real estate on this planet—is something in which I've had only a moderate interest (as evidenced by my living in the same Manhattan rental apartment for almost two decades).
However, prompted by impending marriage and a softening real-estate market, my fiancée and I have been looking at houses in what New York City people call "upstate" (say an hour north of the city). As we both have an affinity for old houses, and she has an architectural background, we have included in our search structures that will need considerable renovation (or even a massive build-out in the case of one stone barn).
(Excerpt) Read more at tcsdaily.com ...
Dibs on a couple Jupiter Trojans.
What, you're saying a Magnum isn't enough any more?
LOL ... Actually I was referring to the asteroids 60 degrees trailing Jupiter .... Patroclus 617 looks like a nice place to eventually live.
Well, seems like it might be a little cool there. ;') There are similar lumps of rock preceding and trailing the Earth, I'll take those instead. ;')
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