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- From: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Clinton's Promises (space) in Charlotte Observer
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 15:58:06 GMT
- Organization: Computer Aided Design Lab, U. of Maryland College Park
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- In article <1993Jan27.021023.8557@pages.com>, bwebster@pages.com (Bruce F. Webster) writes:
- >. I have friends who are still heavily involved in
- >the space industry at various levels. I happen to think that the best thing
- >Clinton could do would be to kill SS Fred and offer $10B, tax-free, to the
- >first US corporation or consortium to put a station on orbit and keep it
- >staffed by at least X people for a year and day. He should also offer $5B to
- >the second corporation/consortium to do the same thing. The government would
- >spend less, create more jobs, and built an 21st century industrial base.
-
- Gosh, you been hanging out with Jerry Pournelle, huh?
-
- He has expounded on the bonus plan to build a moon colony through the same
- fashion.
-
- I got some questions for you:
-
- A) Who owns possession of the technology used to develop the station?
- B) Who owns the data?
- C) How do you set the damned thing up without using goverment help
- in the first place? Guess who owns all the big launch facilities.
- (Unless, of course, you wish to disguise this as a Russian
- Marshall Plan, which is not necessary a Bad Thing. Just be say
- so up front).
- D) Does it have to be a U.S. corp? What if I use off-shore tech, say
- get the Italians into building my living modules?
-
- IF, in exchange for the prize money, the government gets rights to the
- "science" without infringing on trade secrets, it might work.
-
-
- I have talked to Ehud, and lived.
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