Re: Burt Rutans plans for a manned mission to Mars

Fred J. McCall wrote:
Rand Simberg <simberg.interglobal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

:Fred J. McCall wrote:
:
:> :> Think about it. You have a $5 million government grant for research.
:> :> Are you going to blow $20k of it to send up a grad student with your
:> :> experiment or are you going to just send the experiment. Either have
:> :> someone already up there do it for you or else spend another $5k to
:> :> make it automatic so it 'does itself' and sends you the results.
:> :
:> :How do you know it's only "another $5K" to do, with any assurance as to :> :reliability of such automation, when you know nothing of the nature of :> :the experiment?
:> :> How do you know it isn't
:
:I don't know. I wasn't the one making the claim. Why can't you answer :the question?

Why can't you, Rand?

Once again, you evade the point. It's obvious why, and I suspect all can see that.

I have made no claim in this matter, and hence have no need to support said claim, and hence have done no analysis, lacking such need. "So's your mother" works on the schoolground, sometimes, but not in a sci.* newsgroup.

You made a claim that it can be done for $5K. Back it up with data and math, or admit the obvious--that you pulled it out of your ass at the spur of the moment.
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