Re: SPACE PRIZE

From: Charles Buckley (rijrunner_at_frii.com)
Date: 07/25/04 

Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 17:38:21 -0600

Renee Keller wrote:

> "Greg D. Moore (Strider)" <mooregr_deleteth1s@greenms.com> wrote in message
> news:nkVMc.95019$iJ4.34305@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
>
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>>BFD. What people really want is to get into space. If you limit the
>>possibilities you're only hurting yourself.
>>
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> I don't know why you have trouble understanding this. Comercial Sea Planes
> have existed as long as comercial land planes. But you don't see nearly as
> many passangers for seaplanes. That is for a number of reasons. Nobody
> wants to have to drive to a lake or the ocean to take a plane. A Land based
> system has proven to be much more popular. It is also more popular for
> cargo. That is because of convience. If planes only developed in water, we
> would be as advanced as we are because it would be too costly to get
> landlocked stuff overseas. Now if we lived in the water, it might be a
> better way, but we live on land, so it must be close. Even if a water
> recovery craft did better, eventually it would have to be land based. The
> goal is to make that leap in technology NOW, not later.
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The point you are missing is that the driver here is *cost*, not
technology. Why SSTO? Why HTHL? Why not TSTO RLV?

Who cares *how* the tech works as long as it is cheap?

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