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Argone
Genuine Klingon
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Will commericalizing space make it better? [url="http://www.cosmiverse.com/news/space/1002/space10170201.html"]http://www.cosmiverse.com/news/space/1002/space10170201.html[/url]
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[b]4 Thousand Throats can be cut in one night by a running Warrior[/b]
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[b]4 Thousand Throats can be cut in one night by a running Warrior[/b]
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[url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Never eat anything bigger than your own head.[/url]
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
Probably the first step would be asteroid mining (which for some stupid bass-ackwards reason is being discouraged by the UN), which, while difficult to set up, would almost certainly have a positive return on the investment. Meanwhile, the technologies developed to set up safe and effective mining operations on asteroids would almost certainly have other uses throughout the entirety of any space program, thus further advancing the feasibility of space travel and research.
So, where does NASA come into all of this?
Simple: NASA already has an infrastructure, scientific experts, and a lot of necessary equipment for what corporations would have in mind. Corporations with a vested interest in space would jump at the opportunity to work through NASA's extant infrastructure. Companies could lease a NASA space shuttle or a spot on the ISS for long-term zero-G testing. Or they could pay NASA scientists as consultants to determine the feasibility of whatever projects they have in mind. Lease the services of NASA's think-tank for coming up with solutions to whatever new problems are introduced.
All of this would have the added benefit of providing NASA with another source of income with which to continue their work on purely scientific research, while simultaneously building new and better technologies for that research.
The downsides to this are the same as in any commercial venture; namely, we're going to have to come up with new regulations for space-based corporations, and find a way to hold them accountable despite the fact that anything they do while in space is technically outside the jurisdiction of any governing body. Safety regulations in particular would be of extreme importance.
In my opinion, however, the up sides far outweigh the down sides of commercializing space research.
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I think a global space regulation body would be the only way to regulate them, but I can't see something like that being formed any time soon.
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[url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Never eat anything bigger than your own head.[/url]
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
Since right now I don't think there are any laws to stop them. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/confused.gif[/img]
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[b]4 Thousand Throats can be cut in one night by a running Warrior[/b]
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[b]4 Thousand Throats can be cut in one night by a running Warrior[/b]
[b]Deforestation?!?! Now wait a minute![/b][/quote]
Yeah! hahaha [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img]
Mars doesn't have Coniferous forests yet, but we're working on it...
ahh for the days of the retirement home! [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/tongue.gif[/img]
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[b]4 Thousand Throats can be cut in one night by a running Warrior[/b]
[b]ahh for the days of the retirement home! [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/tongue.gif[/img][/b][/quote]
On Mars!
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We are here to place President Grenewetzki under arrest!
100 Bonus Points for the first person to get that one... (very easy)
I think it was "The Man who couldn't remember"...
[b]"Get your @$$ to Mars... Get your @$$ to Mars... Get your @$$ to Mars..."
100 Bonus Points for the first person to get that one... (very easy)[/b][/quote]
I assume the rest of your body parts do not have to tag along? [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img]
[b]isn't that movie with Arnie, and he goes to this place that gives you fake momories that you can totally recall, but then it turns out that his real life was the fake one, and he can't recall his life totally...
I think it was "The Man who couldn't remember"...[/b][/quote]
Total Recall?
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Talk is silver, but violence is gold.
That's if it's a wide-open period of commercialisation... if you're having to sign through an agency like NASA then I guess we'd all be back to the drawing board for a few more years of patiently waiting.
We can get the trees going later, but we need the land now...
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"Why not? It's a bloody acid pool!"
"This planet has been declared a national park."
"Of what nation?"
"Mars."
"Mars? But it's a bloody planet!
"Actually, it's called the red planet because of the oxidized iron--"
"Shut up!"
"Alright."
"I guess I'll go back to my ship. Nothing left to do here."
"I'm sorry. You cannot do that."
"Why not?"
"Your vehicle was on the planet when it was declared a park. Removing it will result in large fines."
"Screw this."
*punches representative*
***THE END***
Man, I'm too bored. :P
Seriously though, I think the whole problem with space it's still too soon technology-wise to make any real investments. Pretty tough to make plans to go down (or up in this case) to the corner store when you're barely able to get your foot out the door.
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There are 3 things in life I never forget: my friends, my enemies, and my access codes.
Never put gasoline in a fire extinguisher.
"No government, no dictator can hold an imprisioned population by force of arms forever. There is no power in the universe greater than the need for freedom. Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies [i]cannot stand[/i]." - G'Kar, [i]The Long Twighlight Struggle[/i]
[b]Comercializing space... can you say "Weyland-Yutani"? Sorry I'm being paranoid :P[/b][/quote]
Yes... You are... [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img]
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[b]isn't that movie with Arnie, and he goes to this place that gives you fake momories that you can totally recall, but then it turns out that his real life was the fake one, and he can't recall his life totally...
I think it was "The Man who couldn't remember"...[/b][/quote]
Woohoo! Another hyped-up Simpsons fan!
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We are here to place President Grenewetzki under arrest!
[b]So long as they can't claim territory as their own...
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Awe come on, a good large scale space-based conflict should really get those technologies flowing!!! [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/wink.gif[/img]
a) Large lit placards in space to advertise them
b) Large letters on the moon that could be seen from the earth
Right...lets have them advertise space. I don't mind companies using advertising and comercialism to help promote space...but enough is enough!
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We are here to place President Grenewetzki under arrest!
[b]Haven't you heard what one company proposed in the past? They proposed:
a) Large lit placards in space to advertise them
b) Large letters on the moon that could be seen from the earth
Right...lets have them advertise space. I don't mind companies using advertising and comercialism to help promote space...but enough is enough![/b][/quote]
that sounds like an evil plan from cobra commander!
All in all, as long as its outside of the Earth moon system, and not on a intercepting trajectory, I dont see how corporations can cause that much trouble out there, might be good for them.
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Great first impression for any first contact situation! [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/eek.gif[/img]
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[b]4 Thousand Throats can be cut in one night by a running Warrior[/b]
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[url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Never eat anything bigger than your own head.[/url]
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras