Re: Saturn V

On Sat, 20 May 2006 04:12:39 +0800, in a place far, far away, "Neil
Gerace" <geracen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

For certain values of "reasonable." They certainly aren't going to
conquer space any time soon at a rate of four flights per decade.

Of course, they don't have a Cold War to hurry things along. I hope you
don't think they should just go full steam ahead and kill some people along
the way just to convince the commentators that they're trying hard.

I don't care if they have a space program at all. I think their
current one is a waste of their money (at least if the goal is to have
substantial accomplishments in space, as opposed to beating their
chests).

One in fact needs not "kill people" to go faster, but if it's
important, then why not kill people? We kill people building bridges,
mining coal, putting up skyscrapers, even delivering goods in trucks.
I find it amusing that some people think that conquering the most
difficult frontier to date should somehow be bloodless.

No-one knows how long it will take to 'conquer space', since no-one's done
it yet. Everyone's still using chemical rockets, which won't work.

Why not?
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