Re: Saturn V

On 23 May 2006 23:39:57 -0700, in a place far, far away, "Hyper"
<hyperboreea@xxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:


Rand Simberg wrote:
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.

That's a pretty calous way of putting it.

Sorry, just pointing out the irrationality of how we do space, and why
we do so little of it.

Plus, even is accidents are inevitable in the long run, incompetence is
less acceptable in the space business than in mining - no national
pride is invested in the latter.

That's irrational, too.
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