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To: KevinDavis

Jefferson said in his inaugural that the West would last for thousands upon thousands of generations of honest, moral, and hard-working farmers. Ignoring that the West as a frontier barely lasted for four generations, how long would a Space Frontier last if it were ever opened by establishing private property rights?


4 posted on 07/11/2005 4:02:39 PM PDT by RightWhale (withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty)
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To: RightWhale

Corporations get leases and private citizens get deeds.


6 posted on 07/11/2005 4:06:37 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
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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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