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To: Wissa

You obviously didn’t listen to the speech. This is not a government project; NASA will function mainly as a coordinating agency for private entities, doing things like making sure onerous requirements (such as the EPA) and red tape don’t get in the way. The budget for NASA will actually be reduced, because it won’t be doing the work.

The work - as in the building of the railroads - will be done by people who have the guts and the money to go out there and try it, and it will employ huge numbers of people as soon as it starts up, ranging from top-level scientists to the people who run the roach coaches at the building sites.


23 posted on 01/27/2012 2:37:22 PM PST by livius
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To: livius
So you're saying there are right now private individuals and companies with plans to make profits by exploiting the resources they can acquire on the moon and beyond?

Personally I doubt that, although I have no doubt there are plenty who have dreams of making a ton of money from government contracts.

30 posted on 01/27/2012 2:50:39 PM PST by Wissa (Gone Galt)
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