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Jonathan · Guest

This video is rather surprising as it was shot using the
style of the Battlestar Gallactica series, with all the
same dramatic edits, moving lens and suspenseful
sound effects. They forget ...one thing.

The most important thing, aside from the babes ...
where are they Cylons?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2fhVnTuxv4&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Esliabh%2Enet%2F

To hold an interest from beginning to end, a program
needs a 'bad guy' to drive the action, to force innovation
and breakthroughs.

Kennedy had the Ruskies.
Starbuck had her Cylons.

NASA forget to include in its 'plot', the VSE, a worthy
adversary.

Today such plot thickeners are issues such as
global warming, or our impending oil crisis and all
the misery those problems might bring to our future.

Colonizing the moon has as its bad guy our own
extinction, impacts and the like. Things that might
happen in the next ten thousand years, or might not.

That doesn't cut it.

Space Solar Power as a goal, instead of a wasteful and
uninteresting return to the moon, does hold sufficient
interest to insure success. As SSP could...

*Make America the energy ..supplier..for this century.
......the next energy Saudi Arabia.

*Help find a solution to Global Warming with unlimited
and clean energy.

*Turn America's largest weakness into its largest strength.

*Insure our continued prosperity and way of life.

*Eliminate our enemies largest advantage over us.

*Create a future where energy costs steadily decline
over time. Instead of the opposite, which brings conflicts
and reduces our standard of living.

*Create a need for low cost to orbit solutions, essentially
jump starting commercial space flight much as the
US mail helped start up commercial aviation.

*Create a need for spaceports to handle the large amount
of cargo Space Solar Power would require.

*SSP would provide energy sources, a 'power plug' in space
to power larger satellites, space craft or even colonies.

*Space Solar Power...affordable, practical and simple
energy sources...in space...is the space infrastructure
needed for commercial, military and exploration missions
to become truly able to exploit and colonize the
solar system.

NASA needs a goal that requires a lasting space
infrastructure. But like Apollo, we are going to
repeat the same mistake, a one shot deal
leaving us little to show for all the time and money.

SSP would leave us a bright future as a nation, and
a future where we could accomplish in space
anything we wanted to.

For those that think SSP is a pipe-dream. That's
not true, in fact, NASA was all set to begin an
ambitious full scale SSP program in 2001.
With a budget set and timelines established for a
full scale demonstation of a series of 1.2 GW satellites.
(See SERT program quoted below.)

But it was scrapped for the Vision for Space Exploration
created by our current President just after he came
into office. A Texas oilman cancelling SSP? Is that
surprising? And his new plan, btw, that exactly mirrors
his fathers space agenda that was quickly dismissed
over 15 years ago.

-- President George Bush, July 21st 1989

"First, for the coming decade, for the 1990s, Space Station
Freedom, our critical next step in all our space endeavors.
And next, for the next century, back to the Moon, back
to the future, and this time, back to stay. And then a
journey into tomorrow, a journey to another planet, a
manned mission to Mars..."

"The resulting project would cost $300 billion and
take 20 years to place an 8 crew base at Lacus Veris.
Even space enthusiasts were underwhelmed
and the concept sank out of sight."
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/luntpost.htm

Executive Summary
NASA'S SPACE SOLAR POWER EXPLORATORY RESEARCH
AND TECHNOLOGY (SERT) PROGRAM

"The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Space Solar
Power (SSP) Exploratory Research and Technology (SERT) program
was charged to develop technologies needed to provide cost-competitive
ground baseload electrical power2 from space-based solar energy
converters. In addition, during its 2-year tenure, the SERT program
was also expected to provide a roadmap of research and technology
investment to enhance other space, military, and commercial
applications such as satellites operating with improved power
supplies, free-flying technology platforms, space propulsion
technology, and techniques for planetary surface exploration."

"NASA focused the SERT effort3 by utilizing the definition of a
"strawman" or baseline SSP system that would provide
10 to 100 GW to the ground electricalpower grid with a
series of 1.2-GW satellites in geosynchronous Earth orbit(GEO).
http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10202&page=1

New Research is being conducted, for instance,
almost as we speak at MIT with NASA help.
http://web.mit.edu/space_solar_power/

NASA compiled this summary of the technology
possibilities in this joint meeting. Some breakthroughs such as
power beaming using directly pumped lasers, instead of
microwaves, which would dramatically lower rectenna size.
http://space-power.grc.nasa.gov/ppo/publications/sctm/

So far less than $50 million has been spent by our govt on
recent SSP research. If SSP were fully funded, what other
breakthroughs might they find?

And the Pentagon announced just a few weeks ago its
considering beginning a large research program on SSP.

Pentagon Considering Study on Space-Based Solar Power
Thursday, April 12, 2007

By Jeremy Singer

"The Pentagon's National Security Space Office (NSSO) may begin
a study in the near future on the possibility of using satellites to
collect solar energy for use on Earth, according to Defense
Department officials."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,265380,00.html

Imo, Space Solar Power is a concept that becomes more appealing
every day. And for many reasons such as ever growing concern
over climate change, dwindling oil reserves, wars and all the
harm that comes from conflicts over natural resources
and economic disparities.

SSP could substantially address all those issues over time.
IMHO.

Thanks for reading

s

BradGuth · Guest

They'll need lots more infomercial spunk than Hollywood. Instead,
perhaps relocating our moon to Earth's L1 would become seriously
impressive. Sadly, it only get's a little worse off than even the
most diehard MI/NSA~NASA spook or mole can mange to accept, especially
of that pesky little matter of their having to keep the likes of Venus
out of each and every FOV, and we'll still not have a science platform
situated within the moon's interactive L1 zone, much less having
established my LSE-CM/ISS with it's tether dipole element.

The good, the bad and the ugly of our sorted past is obviously what
gave birth to the right here and now, and the past of becoming the
right here and now is therefore always of what's in charge of the
future. Skew and/or exclude even the slightest fact of the past or
present, and all that's perceived as real becomes far less than real,
if not a perpetrated or otherwise carefully orchestrated lie. Those
in charge of having recorded the past for the official record are the
very same folks in charge of whatever takes place as of the present,
and thereby of no matters what, in charge of the future that once
again becomes that mirror image of the orchestrated past, be it a tad
bit distorted/funny sort of future mirror that can't allow even the
slightest revision of their carefully moderated and/or skewed past
without risking that future of a mirror immage breaking into a million
pices, followed by at least 7 years of seriously bad luck.

"whoever controls the past, controls the future" / George Orwell

George Orwell's catchy phrase of "whoever controls the past, controls
the future" is true to the extent that each matter of fact or that of
each distortion or lie of the past begets another and yet another.

The well orchestrated demise of JFK (his being a serious status quo
trouble maker that more than obviously wasn't Jewish or otherwise
hocus-pocus cult worthy enough) is yet another good example of our
government running with the dark side (such as trying to take Cuba for
the 7th time by whatever means possible, mostly on behalf of the
extremely wealthy and powerful Bacardi family). At the time after
Hitler's demise, it was pretty much exactly what the Third Reich and
of their Jewish chemical and rocket-science expertise had to offer, of
their being very physics smart and otherwise well above average as
business and banking powerful minions, as having every intentions of
going along with what they had been accomplishing from the very
beginning, with the unfortunate termination of their WWII being a
minor setback as they switched sides and subsequently pretended or
rather outright perpetrated those extra worrisome notions, that in one
way or another the USSR/Russia was out to get us. It seems those
Germans and typical Third Reich along their smart Jewish minions
didn't much like Russia, or much less care for the mood swings within
the USSR, of which at the time was anything but Old Testament
friendly. Perhaps it was because them brave Russians seemed to
realize that those smart and powerful Jews were actually tight with
Hitler, at least up until the point when it looked as though they'd
picked the wrong global domination government to go into partnership
with (similar to their previous Roman partnership fiasco), as such
wasn't looking all that good.

Of course them USSR folks were not fools, nor were they about to pass
up such a nifty cash-cow like our mutually perpetrated cold-war. What
better way to keeping their wartime jobs and extended benefits, while
getting to construct and play with those nifty nuclear WMD as the real
ultimate toys of global death and collateral damage. Of going to/from
the moon was simply a little more cold-war pie in the sky, whereas of
the further takings of public loot as to share and share alike was
simply too good to pass up because, they too could manage to snooker
and dumfound their own general public and of their so-so elected and/
or appointed officials, every bit as easily as eating another piece of
our mutually perpetrated cold-war cake.
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Brad Guth

Jonathan · Guest

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On May 28, 7:55 am, "Jonathan" <w...@bellsouth.net> wrote: