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Comment Lagrange Points? (Score 1) 703

by frontloader on Monday October 19, 2009 @09:15AM (#29792913) Attached to: Where Should We Focus Our Space Efforts?

Wouldn't one or more of the Lagrange points be a good idea [I'm thinking L1]? mabye not the most interesting place, but as a platform for hopping further out it would be hard to beat. Not to mention that those are going to go to the first government to manage to sit a station on them.

Comment Re:Asteroids. (Score 1) 703

by frontloader on Monday October 19, 2009 @09:08AM (#29792843) Attached to: Where Should We Focus Our Space Efforts?

Space-faring for humans is apparently going to be necessarily cost effective. Since humans are unable to accomplish anything without a positive ROI we're going to need to make space mining lucrative. Once it gets to the point where mining asteroids is more cost effective then operating a terrestrial mine we will see vast explorations into the far reaches of the solar system.

no joke - if EVE is any example then asteroid mining is gonna be way important, if for no other reason than to give pirates something to lock.

Comment the unmentioned scary TPM? (Score 1, Troll) 205

by frontloader on Monday March 09, 2009 @03:10PM (#27125065) Attached to: Self-Encrypting Hard Drives and the New Security

surely the worst part of any of this is the prospect of only 'certified' software applications able to do I/O on one of these hardware based encryption discs - think region encoded DVDs. i bet RIAA and the rest of the IP hounds cant wait for this one to go mainstream.

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