Re: Could Falcon 9 compete with the Stick?

On 17 Sep 2005 20:18:11 -0700, in a place far, far away, "Ed Kyle"
<edkyle99@xxxxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:

>> >1) If it were that easy, some one would have done it
>> >already by now.
>>
>> Ahhh..another naif.
>
>Please then, Rand, explain to me how the inventors
>and investors from the same land that created and
>made billions off of the Personal Computer, the
>Internet, the Cellular Telephone, the IPod, the
>Pocket Fisherman, the Sport Utility Vehicle, the Big
>Mac, etc and etc, could not after almost 50 years have
>figured out how to launch stuff into low earth orbit
>for Less Than the Going Rate.

None of those things were ever established as a monopoly of big
government as their initial instantiation.

>Please tell me why no
>one in Europe or the Far East or Eurasia has been
>able to do it either - all of the greatest minds and
>the most determined engineers and the sharpest
>managers and the most nimble capitalists, etc.

Because they all fell into the same "only big-government can do this"
myth and mindset.
.

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