Re: For David Brin and the rest of you

On 9/5/2013 4:54 PM, Keith Henson wrote:
> The propulsion lasers to get the parts up to GEO at a cost where the 
> whole thing makes economic sense, those are weapons, game changing 
> weapons. And if I had to bet, it would be for them to be controlled by 
> the Chinese. Keith Henson _____________

Now that's a problem with the plan.

If the lasers could be weapons controlled by one country, I can see 
other countries upset enough
to sabotage the whole project.  There'd need to be a political solution 
that made it clear
the lasers weren't going to be used as weapons by any group short of 
most of the UN Security
Council.

             ---David

Zeus' lightning bolt, Maru