Posted on 04/03/2006 6:07:27 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Creating a money-making rationale for private space ventures—be they public space travel, orbiting hotels, low-cost rocketry, a space junk collection service, or even a lunar power and light company—such enterprises must be grounded in first-order business basics.
Over the decades, several entrepreneurial space firms have come and gone, their vision getting too far ahead of business reality, but there are encouraging signs that private space ventures are reinvigorating—as well as agitating and disrupting—customary models of space commercialization.
That’s the message to be heard at Space Billionaires: Educating the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs, a Thought Leader Forum being held April 4 at the Wilshire Grand Hotel in Los Angeles and organized by the University of Southern California’s (USC) Marshall Center for Technology Commercialization.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
"Thar's GOLD in them thar minor planetoids!"
and that, in a nutshell, is all it takes for motive: pure, unadulterated, utterly shameless greed.
what will it take to make that motive take hold of peoples' throats?
relative ease of access to extra-orbital space.
what will it take to make THAT happen?
a self-sufficient lunar colony with manufacturing facilities and a mass-driver launch system.
so... how do we get THERE from here?
Withdraw from the Treaty and accept claims at the Land Office. Gov't won't be able to keep up with the private sector on this frontier and will have to budget an extra clerk at the BLM.
Dump the Treaty and register claims. That's all.
Nobody knows where to invest anymore and there is a lot of money sloshing around. So much just sitting at 5%, and all of it ready for investment in something other than molasses and tar.
"Next Generation of Space Billionaires"
I guess I must have overlooked the previous generation of space billionaires, unless it's referring to Soros.
so... what does it take to divest from a treaty?
It's about as easy as getting an islamic divorce. Serve notice and wait a year. Done.
you JEST!?!
The escape clause is written in the body of the Treaty. The Pres has the authority all by himself if he wants to do it. Pre-approved in itself.
no [beep]?
kewlie.
how do we nudge whoever needs tobe nudged to make use of the exit clause from that idiotic agreement?
also: where's the full text of that idiotic agreement?
My Senator is willing to dump the Treaty if we can get some interest going out here.
I'm interested in dumping that treaty.
If I had money and was interested in making it turn into BIG money, I'd be interested in exploiting space resources after that treaty was dumped.
tagline change
I got a very nice letter from my Senator about the Treaty. Everybody, including the White House, knows the Treaty is doing no one any good and is stopping private investment. But, international inertia is a fearsome thing, as we see every day with Mexico, Iraq, Iran, China, and all our other friends.
Is this a movement?
An old tagline returns. :)
Is this a movement?
hrmn...
over the last few years, I have somehow managed to get several hundred people to regularly consider seriously my musings and laugh at my jokes. I don't know how that happened, but perhaps...
My FRiends,
I cannot in good faith ask you to take a public stand blindly. Instead, I ask that you please visit this link and read the text of the United Nations 1967 Outer Space Treaty, of which the US is a signatory.
Please consider its anti-capitalist, anti-property, essentially Statist nature. Please consider how it has stymied and shall continue to stymie private profit-motivated use of space. Please note that it forms a legal block against American military supremacy in an era in which technical innovation and unexpected/uncounterable capabilities are all that keep America ascendant.
If you agree that this treaty is bad for America and, ultimately, bad for free humanity, please join us in condemning it publicly and advocating America's withdrawal from it.
A place to start: Archive your current tagline, and replace it for the remainder of April with condemnation of this treaty. If and when anyone asks you about your tagline, refer them here, to this thread, and suggest they do as you have done.
Any advocacy you choose to take In Real Life would be welcome.
Thank you for your consideration,
kp
Done.
sweet!
I have hopes for what I shall witness when I awake tomorrow.
Note tagline change.
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