[Danny]

What would you keep the Antimatter in?

Much as I am loathe to say it, I agree with Morphius that eventually we are likely to colonise planets in other star systems. That is if we don't wipe ourselves out before we get round to it...

All of you, read "A Step Farther Out" by Jerry Pournelle. Pournelle is a Sci-Fi writer, but ASFO is purely factual. It details methods with which, with current technology (and that was current technololgy in 1979, so imagine what we could do now), we could sort out some of the problems of our planet and even go on to colonise others. The only problem with his ideas is that they involve a huge investment in the future, into things like Solar Panels which, although in the long run they would recoup their cost many times over, they would be very expensive now. The sad thing is that ideas such as these are unlikely to be put into effect, simply because they involve an investment that is not likely to see returns in out lifetimes. It is sad that people would be so selfish as to reject an idea just because it wouldn't benefit them, but that's what would happen if these ideas were seriously proposed...