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To: RightWhale
"...how long would a Space Frontier last if it were ever opened by establishing private property rights?"

Extrapolating from the given example, between four hundred and a thousand years.

Primary factors are:
Limited access
Limited expansion capacity of emigrant population
Tremendous area of expansion -- Mars has twice the dry land area of Earth, plus nearly a hundred moons that could be settled elsewhere.

If one accepts that the Oort Cloud has potential, it could last several thousand years, and would lead naturally to interstellar colonization.

13 posted on 07/11/2005 4:22:24 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (Mighty and enduring? They are but toys of the moment to be overturned by the flicking of a finger.)
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To: NicknamedBob

I think that is a fair estimate.


14 posted on 07/11/2005 4:25:35 PM PDT by RightWhale (withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty)
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