SINE

If the man who set up Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff was alive today, he could be like current astronomers seeking a good spot for a telescope where the air clear or, even better, where there is no air, like on moon. That's even better than the Hubble that wiggles during float through space, not solid base of moon or a planet.

Then there is also the problem making drugs, silicone and many other things that must be pure and more easy to make where there is weightlessness, like on space station. Even products impossible to produce on earth. They say before the l980s, they could not do such things because NASA is a public program. So anything done before would belong to the public, not the inventor.

CORONADO

Makes sense, in a backwards kind of way.

SINE

Now the rules are different, so an inventor can succeed.

CORONADO

It sure took ‘em a long time to figure that out.

SINE

China has just started to figure that out . . . .where NASA is like a city that wants industry, so it provides infrastructure like transporting to orbit, crew for space station specific chores, and so on.

But even this is not so necessary with vehicles and crews starting all over the world. Even Australia had satellite launch by Elon Musk and crazy things like tourist joy rides by Richard Branson. What do you think Amazon Jeff Bezos will make his Blue Origin do?

AURA

Everything he can think of I’ll bet.