An example of the difficulties in gaining acceptance for the KESTS-to-OHR concept, the author (JEDC) failed at an attempt to gain some support from the Space Studies Institute at the space manufacturing conference in May 1997 at Princeton. But my camera-ready paper ("Kinetic Energy Supported Electrically Powered Space Transportation Structures") was rejected for publication in the conference's proceedings even though the paper was presented properly at the conference; SSI later merely commented that it would require a different Universe and a different economic system to be accepted. SSI was the leader in promoting the colonization of space in the near future, when led by the late Dr. Gerry O'Neill; it currently focuses on nanorobots converting asteroids, which is also a very needed effort toward utilization of space resources. The photo here is of me leaving Princeton, under the cold watchful gaze of the bronze lion guarding the steps at Nassau Hall, seems symbolic to me:
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