[Non-member submission]
Those extropians who feel the pain of this will enjoy
this book:
"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0966566203/o/qid=978118516/sr=8-1/ref=aps_sr_b_1_3/103-3002968-8903836"
"Kings of the High Frontier, by Vic Koman". I just finished
reading it. The Roton is one of the thinly-fictionalized
vehicles lovingly detailed (in a variation) by Vic.
The book will elate you... and make you angry.
Russell
PS - any extropians want to join me on a road trip to Mojave
9-10 January? If the WX is good, I may fly there.
>From: hal@finney.org
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
>To: extropians@extropy.com
>Subject: Kern County Seizes Rotary Rocket Property
>Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 10:43:33 -0800
>
>A sad story in the L.A. Times yesterday at
>http://www.latimes.com/business/20001228/t000123648.html:
>
> The property of a company based at the Mojave Airport that planned
> to build a reusable spaceship and included writer Tom Clancy as an
> investor, was seized by Kern County for failure to pay property taxes.
>
> The Rotary Rocket Co. property and other company assets, including a
> low-altitude test craft described as looking like a six-story traffic
> cone sprouting helicopter blades, will be put up for auction Jan. 10.
>
> "Something like this is our last resort," said Dwight Richardson, an
> investigator for the county Treasurer-Tax Collector, after Tuesday's
> seizure.
>
> The minimum bid of $55,917.48 will cover the property taxes owed for
> 2000 and 2001 plus the county's expenses for the seizure and auction,
> county officials said.
>
>Anybody want a Roton for their back yard? $55K sounds pretty cheap.
>Cool pix at http://www.rotaryrocket.com/new/content-photo.html.
>
>Hal
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