Re: APR Extra: Moderately gigantic drawing of Sea Dragon

From: Scott Lowther (scottlowther_at_ix.netcom.SPAMBLOK.com)
Date: 03/30/05 

Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 02:01:47 GMT

Pat Flannery wrote:

>
> There are two things about this rosy scenario that make me think that
> implementing it might be a tad harder to accomplish than it at first
> seems:
>
> 1.) The Sea Dragon's designer is the man who built the rocket to shoot
> Evel Kneival across the Snake River Canyon... it got around halfway
> across.

So? The parachute system screwed up. Same thing happened with von
Braun's A-3.

> 2.) The Orion's big champion is the guy who suggested building a shell
> around the Sun with a diameter of one Earth orbit, even though there
> isn't enough raw material in the entire solar system to make such a
> shell structurally sound.

No, he didn't.

With such blatant disregard for the facts, you're making it difficult to
take you even remotely seriously.