Re: Burt Rutans plans for a manned mission to Mars



Fred J. McCall wrote:

:Still waiting for an argument to support your claim, and laughing at the :contention that it's my responsibility to refute it, rather than yours :to support it. You pulled a ludicrous number out of your ass when you :didn't even know the nature of the experiment, or the requirements.

Go look at standard hardware prices, Rand. You can put together a
general purpose computer for a few hundred dollars. Add some A/D
boards hooked to your instruments (which you need in any case) and
you're pretty much done. Hell, you probably don't even need to worry
about A/D if you're using halfway modern instruments.

This ain't rocket science. Maybe that's why it's beyond you to
understand.

Still waiting. But not holding breath.
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