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Date: 14 October 1981 05:02-EDT
From: Jerry E. Pournelle <POURNE at MIT-MC>
Subject: shackleton
To: jmc at SU-AI, llw at SU-AI

Having read the Shackleton proposal, I like it.  can I help?

Suggestion: this is thew kind of thing we could get a LOT of
science fictin writers--all of them probably--behind.

The L-5 Society already exists to do some of this; it ccould
serve as a seed money collector although the project des
probably need to have its own existence.

I expect the big TV shows would be interested.

OMNI Foundation would probably comew up with a few tens of
thousands as seed money.  Plus publicity.  Including on the OMNI
tv program with Nero oops  Peter Ustinov.

JMC to Pournelle in Oct 81:
All the suggestions you have made are worth thinking about.  Rod Hyde
and Danny Hilles are gathering facts relevant to a cost estimate at
the moment.  My intuition says that publicity should be timed for
when it can do the most good.  We may have a better estimate in a
few days or weeks.  We'll keep you informed.