Re: Home on LaGrange

2005-07-14 Thread RC Macaulay
The two S's . Staven and Stephen present a valid solution to drugs as many have proposed over the decades since China woke up one morning with a drug problem " Opium wars"   The wicked witch of the west caught a splash of water in the face and went down screaming.. you wretched child !! you'

Re: Home, home on LaGrange

2005-07-13 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jones Beene wrote: On Slashdot today: http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/05/07/12/2054216.shtml?tid=160&tid=219 "For decades, people have dreamed about building colonies at the five LaGrange points, intersections in space where gravitational and centrifugal forces balance out to provi

Re: Home, home on LaGrange

2005-07-13 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote: The official magazine of the U.S. Space Command advocates seizing control of the LaGrange points before other nations do it. From the article: 'We face the need to control the chokepoints of the solar system.' " That is the stupidest comment I have read in a long time. How

Home, home on LaGrange

2005-07-13 Thread Jones Beene
On Slashdot today: http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/05/07/12/2054216.shtml?tid=160&tid=219 "For decades, people have dreamed about building colonies at the five LaGrange points, intersections in space where gravitational and centrifugal forces balance out to provide orbital stability. The