[Mars] Do we have time?

[amrobot]

Hello Terry,

Unfortunately I've had similar conversations with people I know, and 
some I work with...

In my recent wanerings on the net, I've run across:

www.lpkfusa.com
www.ems-usa.com
www.zcorp.com
www.3dsystems.com

I'm hoping to influence one of the groups I work with to implement
a mini-lab with some of the above bench top tools..  They could
save quite a bit doing so..

I hope to get some of these tools to start some of my own prototyping
as well.  Take some money though... It's going to take some time
to raise it..

Due to where I work, there are some restrictions on what/how I can
collaborate with others unfortunately.  I'm currently working on 
figuring out that labyrinth of rules... 

Maybe we can start coming up with ways to make money, ideas,
prototypes and products that can be used both on terra, and off --
making it useful enough for people to buy here, and fund our
effort to get off this rock.

On another list, I said I was working on a way to make this 
collaboration happen.. I'm still working on it...

Thank you for your patience,
-Roy


-----Original Message-----
>From: Terry Mackintosh <terry at mackintoshweb.com>
>Sent: Jul 15, 2006 1:45 PM
>To: Mars related topics <mars at mackintoshweb.com>
>Subject: [Mars] Do we have time?
>
>Hi all
>
>I am normally a very up beet person that tends to look on the bright 
>side, that said...
>
>Lately thinks are happening that are very worrisome, and it is looking 
>doubtful that we have enough time to establish people on Mars (or even 
>the moon) before there will no longer be a window of opportunity to do so:
>
>* Global warming: It is projected that in just another ten years this 
>will be so sever that even the nay sayers will not be able to deny it, 
>and that in just fifty years all hell is going to break loose weather 
>wise with sea level rising around 20 feet and the start of another ice age.
>
>* Global over population: In this same time period people will multiply 
>to around 9 or 10 billion people!
>
>* We now have a president in the US that may be willing to start a 
>nuclear war. And other leaders in other lands may also be willing, even 
>eager (by some accounts) to engage in nuclear war.
>
>* The US is going to create conventional explosive war heads to go on 
>the Titan missile ... how is an enemy seeing this launched at them to 
>know what kind of war head is on it? and is it not more likely that such 
>a launch would be made?
>
>* The US is making hardened enemies world wide like never before!
>
>* Debt from the ongoing wars and any future wars may bankrupt the US.
>
>* People may totally lose faith in the government, this would mean a 
>civil war. (The people versus the government.)
>
>* Almost total disinterest on the part of the US government in making a 
>mass change over to renewable energy. Locking us into dependence on oil.
>
>
>
>I would not be overly worried about any one of these, or even maybe any 
>two of them, but ALL of these things and more are coming together at the 
>same time and in the near future ...
>
>Some say that Bush will find some way to suspend the constitution and 
>that there will not be any election in 2008.  This could be dismissed as 
>ridicules, except that if you look at the way he operates, the total 
>disregard of law, the total disregard for what the people really want, 
>all combined with the purposefulness of the way he is moving forward, 
>like maybe he does not intend to step down? or maybe he figures on 
>getting a puppet elected to do his bidding for him?
>
>In any event, even discarding Bush from the future picture, the rest of 
>the stuff is converging, and many people will be saying old things like 
>"forget mars or the moon, we need to fix our problems here first!" The 
>problem with this line of reasoning is that the problems here will never 
>be fixed, only exchanged for new ones at best.
>
>So, might funding for space related things fall to near zero? might we 
>loss much of our prime real estate to flooding? think about the Cap. 
>going underwater ... ouch. In fact most of Florida might go under water.
>
>
>Does anyone else see a problem here? or am I just freaking out?
>
>We may not have till 2030 or beyond, we may not have till 2010.
>
>Make it a great day.
>
>-- 
>Terry Mackintosh <terry at mackintoshweb.com>
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