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   From: mikecombs@nospam.com_chg_nospam_2_ti.retro.com   
      
   "Gordon D. Pusch"  wrote in message   
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   > IIRC, it pre-dates Zubrin substantially. In fact, I vaguely recall that   
   > it might even have appeared on a page or two of O'Neill's "The High   
   Frontier"...   
      
   I doubt that.  O'Neill was pushing the use of lunar resources to build SPS.   
   I think he was of the opinion that fusion was not going to make SPS obsolete   
   in any foreseeable future.   
      
   He did talk about harvesting lunar ice at the poles though, the existence of   
   which was purely theoretical at the time.   
      
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   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"   
      
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