From: mikecombs@nospam.com_chg_nospam_2_ti.retro.com   
      
   "Alex Terrell"  wrote in message   
   news:d81e59c9.0402021405.57a4baad@posting.google.com...   
   > There are reasons why it's advantageous to have a main lunar base at   
   > low latitude, and a water mining base at the poles.   
   >   
   > But how could cargo be transported bewteen the two.   
      
   I wrote a short SF story where I had a mass-driver and an "anti-mass-driver"   
   tossing filled and empty buckets of ice back and forth between a polar mine   
   and an equatorial station.   
      
   http://members.aol.com/howiecombs/tnbttbt.htm   
      
   The advantage of such a system would be the lack of need for infrastructure   
   between the two points.   
      
   A few years later, someone at the Space Studies Institute was discussing   
   just such an "anti-mass-driver".   
      
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   Regards,   
   Mike Combs   
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   We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the   
   best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the   
   Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely.   
   Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable - the best site is   
   "somewhere else entirely."   
      
      Gerard O'Neill - "The High Frontier"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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