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Subject: 
Re: Space Station/Base Names (was Re: Space stations?)
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Date: 
Sun, 26 Sep 1999 23:48:57 GMT
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Tom McDonald <radiotitan@yanospamhoo.com> wrote:
BTW, for some reason I think of "Station" to mean something that includes
civilian traffic and/or population, "Outpost" to be without civilian traffic,
but "Base" to mean something more substantial than "Station".(1)

I'd think of Base to be something purely military/government. Outpost and
Station are either mixed or all civilian -- the difference being that an
Outpost would be more on the frontier.

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Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
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(...) fun. (...) After reading your post again Steve, it seems I ignored it. And I ignored Jonathan too. My apologies! Please forgive me. I like your ideas now that I've read them again. And they can both work together. Steve, to nitpick here, (...) (25 years ago, 26-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)

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