Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!wmartin From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Blatant Commercialism in 2010 Message-ID: <6703@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 17:42:55 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.6703 Posted: Thu Dec 20 17:42:55 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 22-Dec-84 02:13:07 EST References: <11185@radley.UUCP> <11400006@uiucdcsp.UUCP> <567@voder.UUCP> Organization: USAMC ALMSA Lines: 17 > Incidently, did you notice that when they show that Pan Am add that the > space station STILL has one wheel under construction!?! > -- > Kevin Thompson {ucbvax,ihnp4!nsc}!voder!kevin > (So, you expect that in a lousy 25 years there won't be budgetary and funding problems? The folks running that space station are probably lucky to get AIR, much less enough men and materials to finish construction, what with all the budget being eaten up for Lunar exploration and excavation and Jovian expeditions... :-) I always did think that "2001" was far too near a date to use; I vote for 2051 or 2071 for the new edition. (:-) Anybody have any better or more rigorous reasoning for a realistic date? Will