What if you launch from South America on an ESA project? Do you need a license from a United States bureaucracy to photograph Ayers Rock from Space? Can anyone else picture the total demise of the American space industry. (Not saying 'good' or 'bad'. Just saying)
This is a relatively regular initiative which has been producing good results on a sporadic basis for decades. At least this has been my experience in Canada. I feel certain that people in many other so-called 'first world' countries have given it a go as well.
It would seem, however, that a more durable approach might consist of going to the people in the areas where the need is felt and assisting them to make their own technologies from locally available materials to answer locally felt needs.
Not the same ego-boo but immensely more useful.
"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for life" (My apologies to the original)
Forget the kids. I've been waiting for this ever since it first showed up in 'The Mote in God's Eye' by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
Where the heck has the industry been on this one? Oh, right. They were in their Podzone.
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What if you launch from South America on an ESA project? Do you need a license from a United States bureaucracy to photograph Ayers Rock from Space? Can anyone else picture the total demise of the American space industry. (Not saying 'good' or 'bad'. Just saying)
This is a relatively regular initiative which has been producing good results on a sporadic basis for decades. At least this has been my experience in Canada. I feel certain that people in many other so-called 'first world' countries have given it a go as well. It would seem, however, that a more durable approach might consist of going to the people in the areas where the need is felt and assisting them to make their own technologies from locally available materials to answer locally felt needs. Not the same ego-boo but immensely more useful. "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for life" (My apologies to the original)
Forget the kids. I've been waiting for this ever since it first showed up in 'The Mote in God's Eye' by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Where the heck has the industry been on this one? Oh, right. They were in their Podzone.