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Re: Sorry, but there's nowhere else to go but Earth

You may be right, but your statement about space will never be cheap, reminds me of a lecture I went to in 1978. It was given by a guy who had just gotten his first home computer. I don’t remember the speed, but it had no hard drive, just a 7” floppy, and a massive 64 K of memory. He kind of apologized for having that much memory because he needed it to do the field strength calculations for the radarscopes he was designing. It cost him $7000. At the Q & A he was asked if he thought computer prices would ever go down. He answered “No I think the hardware cost are about as cheap as they will ever be”.

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