From:	The Deb Decker <RJR96326@****.UTULSA.EDU>
Subject:	Space: The final Marketplace
Date:	Fri, 29 Oct 1993 01:29:56 GMT

>Ok, nitty gritty. What would Orbital chips grant you over regular chips?

You can argue that they are required for more advanced computer systems.
Sometimes background doesn't translate into game mechanics.

>Don't forget their food, water, oxygen/nitrogen air supply...

Which could be provided by a biosphere. It may not be completed now, but perhaps
a station that is meant to go self-sufficient in 2060 could provide the
basis for a competitor's run. . .

>yeah, people spending 1+ years in orbit isn't good. Bodies deteriorate
>without gravity.

What about people living in 1g environments? Or becoming accustomed to the
extent that they ca function in space but return to Earth would be hell?

>Again, it's down to what the long term is. Think of what can be gained
>from Mars (if anything?) If there's cash in it, then there's a possibility.
>Or how 'bout teraforming meteorites for silicon? (THWAP)

Or the mineral deposits on Luna? Or to maintain the melodramatic Srun flavor,
the discovery of achaeological evidence of life on the Moon. . .this formed
the basis of a series of books wherein mankind discovered another alien race
of giants who had placed some humans within their society after a human
interstellar war.


J Roberson