And lo on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:57:37 -0000, nemesis  
<nam### [at] gmailcom> did spake, saying:

> "Phil Cook" <phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> wrote:
>> And lo on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:00:40 -0000, nemesis
>> <nam### [at] gmailcom> did spake, saying:
>>
>> > "Phil Cook" <phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> wrote:
>> >> Ducking through doors - just make them taller. Ladders to climb  
>> up/down
>> >> things that only allow one person at a time.
>> >
>> > we're in 2007 -- 6 years after 2001! -- and astronauts are still
>> > crawling around constrained, small spaces in ships and the  
>> International
>> > Station...
>>
>> So why is that?
>
> oh, I don't know.  Perhaps it has something to do with it costing  
> millions to
> build spaceships with thick and heavy materials and putting them in  
> orbit?
> ever heard the old adage:  "space is money"? at least from a relativist  
> point
> of view... ;)

So the fact that in 2001:ASO they had a moon base that might have its own  
fabrication plant... :-)

-- 
Phil Cook

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