Re: SpaceShipTWO is the VSS Enterprise!!!

From: Bruce Hoult (bruce_at_hoult.org)
Date: 09/29/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 02:49:43 +1200

In article <r-adnefO7bd3KsfcRVn-hw@texas.net>,
 Richard Schumacher <no-spam@thank-you.com> wrote:

> Alan Anderson wrote:
>
>
> >>>>Strange, then what is Armadilloaerospace doing?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Wasting money. God bless 'em, but judging from their website and
> >>results reported to date they are enthusiastic dilettante tinkerers.
> >
> >
> > Imagine what you'd have thought of the Wrights if they had maintained a
> > web site.
>
> I would have seen that the Wrights were systematically attacking
> previously unsolved problems that needed solving. Armadillo in contrast
> are re-inventing wheels, such as figuring out how to get the
> instabilities out of their engine

If these problems are in fact solved then the solutions are not
publically available. So your argument is like saying that there was no
point in developing Linux because Sun/HP/IBM/AT&T had already solved
that problem.

> They'd do (or would have done) better to just buy
> engines from Xcor instead and spend their time and money on systems
> integration.

John Carmack is an investor in XCOR so I suspect he may have a fairly
good idea what they have available.

-- Bruce

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