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Note on Media as a Source of Funds

	As noted, the media are a potential source of some tens of
millions of dollars.  However, we must be very careful lest our
relations with the media spoil our  other sources of money and
even our relations with volunteers.  If the media see themselves
as a dominant source of funding, they will want to dominate the
colonization effort.  It would be best to approach the media very
late - after the form of the effort has taken shape and many
other funding sources have contributed.  Ideally the media payments
for the initial colonization could finance the first resupply.

	I cannot at the moment fully articulate my worries about
getting involved with the media, but as Confucius should have
said, "There is no temple so high that a flock of starlings can't fly over
it and shit on it".

Note on the Orient as a source of funds

	I think that an early effort should be made to see if big
money can be raised in private donations in the Far East.  I have
in mind Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore.  In
all these countries, many large fortunes have been made since
World War II, and the tax laws have probably permitted more
accumulation from a given amount of economic activity than have
the tax laws of the U.S.  Moreover, there has been no opportunity
to participate in the exploration of space, even though U.S. and
Russian space activities have engendered widespread interest and
excitement.  The creation of a frontier should be more important
to residents of these crowded and often insecure countries than
to the U.S.  We need to get the support of people with good
contacts there and then organize a tour.  This should be after
we have gotten endorsements of the technological feasibility of
the enterprise from prominent people.