"Unless you are wealthy the way no real person is" ? There really are wealthy people. I've seen them. They are real.

Or not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroscraft I agree.

Bullfeathers on a stick. Read "Mining the sky" please. The Human race hasn't even BEGUN to expand its econom(ies) and technologies yet. Space Elevators or Mega Mass drivers will eventually open up the Solar system for settlement-and O'neil Colonies will most probably be preferred human Habitat. After the planets and…

Two enigmas in a row; borrowing heavily from Bradbury and Clarke but without a sense of...nevermind. Back to something that makes sense. Pirates in space, Buck.

Now those are critiques I agree with. There was no resolution-perhaps at the end when there seemed to be two different camera shots from orbit one might surmise some sort of mind trick played on our electronics by the aliens? However, watching a young father die leaving a daughter behind was kind of a grim tale if…

Thank you.;)