moonbase race from gene wright gene theporch raider net with the continuin talk about the end of the space age and complaints by government over the large cost why not try something i read about that might just work announce that a reward of billion would go to the first corporation who successfully keeps at least person alive on the moon for a year then you d see some of the inexpensive but not popular technologies begin to be developed there d be a different kind of space race then i ll say imagine that there were a couple groups up there maybe landing a few weeks apart the year mark starts coming on for the first group isn t a billion pretty good incentive to take a shot at a potential winner yeah that s a shame that team a s life support gave out so close to the deadline thanks for the billion on the other hand if apollo cost billion for a few days or weeks in space in dollars then won t the reward have to be a lot more than only billion to get any takers tommy mac tom mcwilliams wk as the radius of vision increases tm ibm cl msu edu hm the circumference of mystery grows
