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 Libertarian Futurist Society
Besides Science Fiction, he is interested in computer privacy and security, freedom of speech, individualist Anarchist and Atheist philosophy and history as well as business, economics, nanotechnology etc. In addition to the LFS, he is involved to varying degrees with Alcor, Foresight Institute, Extropy Institute, Resources for Independent Thinking and Association of Libertarian Feminists.
Based in Silicon Valley, Moulton left Sun Microsystems after 13 years and is involved with a variety of internet and technology ventures.
For over half his life, Milan has been a professional writer, with over 70 published novels to his credit, including the Prometheus award-winning "Cybernetic Samurai" and the dark military-SF "CLD: Collective Landing Detachment" (to which, in the not-too-distant future, the promised sequel will appear).
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 Outer Space Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.org (Launch Base)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Achieving orbital speed can theoretically occur at any altitude, although atmospheric drag precludes an orbit that is too low.
At sufficient speed, an airplane would need a way to keep it from flying off into space, but at present, this speed is several times greater than anything within reasonable technology.
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