X-Message-Number: 20167 From: Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:29:28 EDT Subject: Re: CryoNet #20073 Nanotechnology article --part1_83.213abf36.2ac30628_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit John deRivaz said: > > In the article > http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/16sep_rightstuff.htm?list687582 > NASA describe the use of nanotechnology to build a space ship not unlike > the > Lexx or Moya space ships of science fantasy - Sad to see that: It is not serious and NASA is on a bad slope. I would be far more interested by an article on a system welding 30 m in diameter rocket stages. Unfortunately, there is nothing in the world on that subject. :-( The basic idea in the above article is: tomorow will be worderful, magic, and everything will be nearly dirty cheap. To know what will happen recall the 50's - 60's mantra: Nuclear energy will be too cheap to meter! All of this, in space industry as elsewhere is a lost of time and money, a way to say: We do nothing. Tomorrow will not be wonderfull, cheap and so on. It will be in crissis, hard choices will have to be made, things will be costly and politicians, lawers, god-drunk religious people will spoil the world. A place in the sun will be earned with an AK47 machine gun. Don't expect more. Yvan Bozzonetti. --part1_83.213abf36.2ac30628_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20167