From: Alfio Puglisi (puglisi@arcetri.astro.it)
Date: Tue Nov 12 2002 - 02:11:34 MST
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
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>On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Max M wrote:
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>> The EU is making the differences smaller, so most likely the taxations
>> will move to real estate instead. Houses are harder to move cross border.
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>Not on the backs of nanobots... Or I think there is a company, perhaps
>in the U.K., that is bringing back dirigibles for moving large objects.
That's in Germany (http://www.cargolifter.com), and the company is now
short on money and risks being shut down, before even starting operations.
That's sad: the stuff was unbelievable (160 metric tons, 10,000 km range,
100 km/hour). We contacted them about some BIG shipment we had to do
across the Atlantic (some 55 tons, 10-meter wide iron pieces), but they
said that first shipments were planned in 2003-2004. I don't know if we'll
see it.
Ciao,
Alfio
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