Re: ...Nasa/Griffin LYING about Public Support for Moon/Mars Missions!

I have recently sold two coal-to-oil facilities in Indonesia. These
facilities convert low-rank coal which is not economic to ship from the
mines across the ocean, to light-crude oil using a solar-assisted form
of the Bergius process.

One CTO is on the island of Sumatra. One is on the island of Borneo.
Each will produce 200,000 b/d.

I retain 100% ownership of the plant and its operations. Investors own
a portion of the 200,000 b/d output from each plant. I retain a 1/3
interest in the output of each facility.

The present value of the output of each facility today is worth in
excess of $30 billion, a total of $60 billion. My 1/3 interest in
these facilities is worth $20 billion.

A total of 1 bilion tons of coal and 60 sq miles are committed to this
project, enough to make 6 billion barrels of light crude. On a reserve
basis, this is a value of more than $150 billion. 1/3 of this output
is $50 billion.

I have already retained aerospace consulting firms to detail plans to
create a TSTO-RLV to be launched from the New Mexico Spaceport. I will
build 3 vehicles capable of placing 2 tons into LEO from New Mexico at
a cost of $80 million each. I will fund these myself from profits
already earned in my energy business.

These vehicles will also support a manned configuration consisting of
two crew members and four passengers. The piloted payload modules will
cost $70 million each to design build test and license.

With turn around of 6 weeks this fleet will support 26 launches per
year from New Mexico. Each launch is expected to cost less than $5
million.

There are two markets I will explore with these vehicles; space tourism
and multi-point wireless space communications.

Space Tourism - There are 8,500 people worth $125 million according to
the Merrill Lynch world wealth report. 1% of these are likely to pay
between $6 million and $9 million each each year to fly to orbit. 85
people x $7.5 million = $637.5 million revenues less 26 launches x $5
million = $130 million in recurring costs. yields $507.5 million per
year in gross margin. Assuming EBITDA of $400 million per year and
23x valuation the value of this $450 million total investment is $9.2
billion!

Leveraging this value by pledging retained earnings, once realized,
will be used to build larger vehicles and more sophisticated commercial
space payloads.

Here is the immediate next project;

Multi-point wireless space communications - Communications satellites
have grown increasingly sophisticated over the years. We started out
with point to point,with two special ground stations. Now we are using
one to many, with a ground station broadcasting to many ground
recievers, as in Sirius, XM, DirecTV. The time has come to graduate to
multi-point, many mobile recievers and transmitters communicating
through a space based network of satellites.

I have purchased a microwave imaging company that has the requisite
resources to build a phased array communications link capable of
projecting thousands of simultaneous links across a large are.. I have
also contracted with a specialy wafer fabricator to build a 20 THz
multi-spectral laser communicatoins system. These core facilities will
be used to create 300 satellites in 12 sun syncronous polar orbits.
Each satellite will use its phased array antenna and GPS signals to
paint a stationary pattern of fixed doppler corrected cells onto the
surface of the Earth, and in this way establish communication with any
IEE 803 compliant device in the antenna area. The satellite will also
be equipped with a router to connect any device to any other device in
the illuminated area. The satellite will also be equipped with a
high-order optical linkoperating at 20 THz. Three low power telescopes
are located on each satellite. Using GPS signals, the satellites will
acquire their nearest neighbor and establish a 20THz signals with each
nearest neighbor. In this way, a 20THz optical broadband will be
established around the world, with multiple broadband microwave
downlink to the surface. The ground devices will 'see' only a local
'virtual cell' and be capable of establishing nearly instantaneous
broadband communicatoins anywhere in the world.

5 billion wireless broadband users may be supported by this system
worldwide. If users pay $10 per channel per year, $50 billion per year
may be generated. The cost of each satellite is estimated to be $14
million. The launch cost is $5 million, a total cost of $19 million.
300 satellites therefore have a capital cost of $5.7 billion.

The system is entirely automatic and less than $500 million per year is
expected to be needed to maintain it, operation of a ground control
station in New Mexico and placement of spares being the central cost.

Present value of this income stream is greater than $1,000 billion.

Leveraging this value by pledging retained earnings, once realized,
will be used to build larger vehicles and more sophisticated commercial
space payloads.

I have also purchased an LA based media company to supply media to the
communications network I'm building, and I have organized a banking
group to provide global banking and asset management services through
wireless PDAs, to earn additional revenues from this global
communications network. I am also partnering with a number of
fabricators to build handsets and other devices to use this system once
completed. Ultimately over $4 tillion in value will be created,with
over half of this derived from space based or space supported
operations. This is sufficient to build and operate a small fleet of
reusable manned lunar and interplanetary vehicles within 10 years from
today.








Jim Davis wrote:
Joe Strout wrote:

That seems highly unlikely to me. Go to the membership of the
NSS or the Planetary Society and ask for a show of hands. I'd
certainly go.

Yes, it's a lot easier to volunteer for the romantic fantasies of
2006 than for the hard reality of 2056. The hand sure goes up a lot
quicker when you know you won't be called on to follow through.

You've reminded me of David Anderman's comments on space investment
clubs about 7 or 8 years ago. Some space advocates would complain
about SEC regulations against all but qualified investors for
Rotary Rocket, etc. In David's words:

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Can't somebody put investment clubs in some sort of
sci.space.policy FAQ? This 'idea' comes up about once or twice a
month, before it dies. Here's the usual pattern:


1) A newbie asks the question about whether it would be a good
idea to do an investment club.
2) A flurry of encouraging responses follow.
3) Wales Larrison and Jim Kingdon provide analysis of SEC
regulations and past experiences with investment clubs.
4) William Mook and Len Cormier design spacecraft that could be
built by the investors.
5) The thread finally dies when the question is asked: "Who's
going to write the first check?"
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Jim Davis

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