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Date: Sun, 5-Feb-84 16:28:56 EST
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To 2/5/83 from Walt Pesch

Net.space has had a few wide, slow-burning discussions this week on
issues that have been discussed in the past.

The debate on "the rights of planets" still fizzles on, concentrating
on whether humans have the right to terraform any rock in space that
we are able to get to.

A cousin to the wombat discussion, the NASA terminology listings have
been trying to throw more humor at the beaurocracy of space.

The discussions based on planets and asteroids have moved to the
mineralogical contents and economic worth of the afore mentioned.

A new discussion is about the proposed Commercial Location Satellite,
done as a Corporation venture, for tranceivers to use microwave
broadcasts to satellites to pinpoint locations, and then send them
back.  The satellites exist and are accurate within meters.  A related
discussion on the calculation of the position is also going.

Some others
  - interstellar travel via comet and starless "rogue" planets.
  - Apollo 11 and whether it was rehearsed.
  - Future projects for the planets in the solar system.
  - the "Star Wars" third-generation nuclear defence.  (space-based)