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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Placing it in US Midwest was just for the benefit of the audience. In reality, Millennium Towers or comparable structures [i]were[/i] erected all over our planet in the then-so-near future, either as actual millennium celebration mcguffins, or then as megalomaniac corporate headquarters. Had there been a little less recession and a little more (and thicker-walled) bubbles on the stock market, monument-building could even have become the trend of the 2000s. Besides, the US Midwest that was building the Tower was already paying taxes for a space program a zillion times more advanced than the one funded by the US Midwest that was watching the episodes... One has to scale down the relative significance of the Tower investment a bit when one remembers that it would only be two years until the launch of a highly capable interstellar probe, nine years until a manned Saturn mission, and four years SINCE the last use of a manned interplanetary vessel capable of interstellar transit! (Granted, we don't know if DY-100 or even Nomad were US programs, but the Saturn mission certainly appeared to be.) Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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