Re: Could Falcon 9 compete with the Stick?


Rand Simberg wrote:
> 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.
>


The SUV was. The first half a million Jeeps were built by government
contractors and sold only to the government.

Long range jets started out as a government monopoly, at about the same
time orbital rockets did. That genesis didn't stop the 707 or 747.

Will McLean

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