Exit Solution, Exit Strategy

As an exit solution space development offers JOBS. The government does nothing to CREAT jobs and is a net consumer of wealth. Observe. "At present prices, it costs about $4,000 per pound to launch propellants (or drinking water) into low earth orbit --except with the Space Shuttle, in which case the cost is more like $10,000 per pound, or $80,000 per gallon! Fortunately, there are a variety of known ways to lower cargo launch costs by a factor of five, ten, or evern twenty. Even so, the need to recycle water and other materials is obvious. But such economic considerations have had no significant effect on the way government-run launch vehicles are designed and operated. Governments, unlike industries, do not have to compete and show a profit!" (p.56 " Mining the Sky", by John S. Lewis) And so it is obvious that NOW is the time to do "space development" without government.  Such real efforts will bring economic expansion to our economy.

As an exit strategy space may provide some interesting solutions to world problems. Suppose for instance that the entire nation of Israel were to have a sperm and egg bank on the moon. Islam were to blow it out of existence on earth, it would yet still exist! It would make their efforts moot. The bible talks about "new Jerusalem" decending from the skies. Perhaps the Jewish nation returning to the ashes of the old. If all this nonsense leads to the atomic apocalypse, as it just might, then would it not be a "nice" thing to have some of our eggs in another basket. Perhaps one in which sanity can prevail.