From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Mon Jul 15 2002 - 18:11:34 MDT
Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> The free market will never get us into space until there is a return on
> investment. Until someone ponies up a lot of money, nobody is going to
> invest in this. To get someone to spend a billion dollars, you probably
> need 300,000 investors each pledging a million. That's a million
> dollars for each person in the U.S. It just won't happen.
>
oops. A billion is 1000 people putting up a million each or
10,000 putting up $100,000 or 100,000 putting up $10,000 each.
Not undoable by any means. It depends on how many billions and
how many people believe in it and want it that much.
- samantha
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