RE: Spaaaaaace Patrol!

I don't understand what the order of system habitation has to do with
it.

When redirecting asteroids/comets from the Keplar or Ort region, how is
it
more advantages to have patrols in the Keplar/Ort region if we populate
Io
or some other outer solar system body before Mars than if we do the same
populating Mars first, then the Io etc.?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Miller [SMTP:shadocat@primenet.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 11:18 AM
> To:	gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject:	Re: Spaaaaaace Patrol!
> 
> Nyrath the nearly wise wrote:
> 
[snip]
> > The military always likes to control the high ground.
> 
> That assumes that we populate the outer solar system before we 
> populate Mars (I don't think we'll drop asteroids on a populated
Mars).
> 
> It is more likely that we will look to populate Mars in the near 
> future.  In that case, all launch sites would be in easily observable 
> locations.  It's is much easier to stop something outbound than to 
> patrol an area that is, IIRC, larger than the area of the planetary 
> system.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Jeff Miller