Re: Getting Mega Projects Done

From: David Summers (david_at_ualmiles.com)
Date: 11/27/04 

Date: 27 Nov 2004 08:25:36 -0800

delongd@earthlink.net (Dan DeLong) wrote in message news:<cf9b38fa.0411261144.272e7173@posting.google.com>...
> I suggest you talk to people who have tried to do exactly that in the
> past. Abe Hertzberg's ram cannon is, in my opinion, an excellent idea
> for launching payloads really cheaply but has a high initial cost.
>
> Similarly, Jordin Kare is promoting a laser launch system that can be
> incrementally funded, tested, and proven before scaling up to
> people-launching size.
>
> The physics of these have been worked out and they're "just" business
> propositions now. :)
>
> Dan DeLong

These really demonstrate the problem I was thinking of. Why are these
projects not being done? They seem technically feasible, so they must
seem unfeasible from a business perspective. I am worried that the
problem is that technology used to get cheap access to space is
considered to revolutionary (and risky) for standard business,
reguardless of proof of the technology's readiness.

This is really what I mean by "noone seems willing to invest." Is it
still technical things holding these projects up? Business, as in
they are not funded enough? Or political, as in not in my back yard?

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