Space Forum / Space Policy / March 2008

http://edfromct.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/robots-artificial-intelligents-and-the-
us-govt/
This shows what is now achievable. "Big Dog" is a highly mobile robot.
BTW - The robot the size of a fly surely underlines all I have ever
said about alien spacecraft.

The United States since the end of world war two has aranged things
to avoid the possibility of another surprise attack in the nuclear
age.  We have been largely successful in this regard.
This success has been achieved by exploiting the retail and banking

The long-standing policy of the United States with respect to control
of missile proliferation (several missile proliferation treaties from
1940s onward)
along with this nation's long-standing policy of the United States

Big-Money and Big-Brother.
Let's be clear about what the upcoming Olympics in  Beijing are all about.
The Chinese Communist Party desperately wants a successful
Olympics as a path to world-wide legitimacy for their form of

See:
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story.jsp?id=news/XCOR03278.xml&headline=
XCOR%20Unveils%20Suborbital%20Spacecraft%20Plans&channel=space

We can meet all our needs through space development.
Here is the program I propose;
 (1)  Develop a stretched External Tank massing 1,000 metric tons,
         with a 120 metric ton structural fraction

What about your "anti Google Lunar X-Prize campaign" ?
What about the ugly pictures you were selling on e-bay ? Did you sell
any of them ?
And what about your new "New Space Agency"

These read like epitaphs....
Tibet in Turmoil...CNN.com
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/14/tibet.unrest/index.html?iref=24hours
"The protesters planned to reach the border for a confrontation with Chinese

The largest protests in twenty years in Tibet are spreading
outside Tibet.
Tibet Protests Widen
http://www.miamiherald.com/519/story/459380.html

See:
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/03/report-arthur-c.html

It was founded by pilgrims who decided to leave their
own country, which didn't encourage freedom of religion,
freedom of speech, and freedom of the individual.
So they migrated to an uncivilized land inhabited only

Any point on the Earth's surface may be be related to any other point
in the universe by the minimum speed it takes to get there.  The rate
at which mass flows from any point to any other therefore is given by
the momentum needed to maintain that flow.  The cost of maintaining

Every modern depression, recession, business panic and collapse was
preceded by military action in the modern age - from the Civil War
forward.
That happens because wars are not only very costly, but they destroy

Recently both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were interviewed by the
editorial board of the Houston Chronicle. While Hillary Clinton seemed
to flip flop on space policy, Barack Obama reiterated his opposition
to publically funded human space flight.