From: utzoo!decvax!cca!jef@LBL-UNIX@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.space Title: Re: ...when WHAT was inhabited...? Article-I.D.: sri-unix.3376 Posted: Mon Sep 20 22:27:35 1982 Received: Tue Sep 21 08:14:42 1982 From: jef at LBL-UNIX (Jef Poskanzer [rtsg]) It is likely that L4 and L5 are chock-full of stardust, just begging to be build into useful factories, powersats, resort hotels, etc. Various people have looked for the dust and so far have found nothing, but I am still confident that it is there. We could find out exactly how much dust is there for a paltry $20M or so - one of those upper stages used with the shuttle to get to geosynch should be able to get to L4/5 and back, considering that its payload could be as simple as a sheet of plastic for the dust to embed itself into. We REALLY should find out. Does anyone know of any plans for missions like this, or for more extensive telescopic searches? --- Jef