Re: Burt Rutans plans for a manned mission to Mars

echomko_at_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric Chomko) wrote:

:Fred J. McCall (fmccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
:: echomko_at_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric Chomko) wrote:
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:: :Fred J. McCall (fmccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
:: :: royls@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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:: :: :On Fri, 12 May 2006 14:00:36 GMT, Fred J. McCall
:: :: :<fmccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:: :: :
:: :: :>royls@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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:: :: :>:On Fri, 12 May 2006 03:34:02 GMT, Fred J. McCall
:: :: :>:<fmccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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:: :: :>:>If we can lift enough mass to put up a space elevator we don't need a
:: :: :>:>space elevator.
:: :: :>:
:: :: :>:?? ROTFL!! "If we can send enough men and supplies and equipment and
:: :: :>:rails and crossties all the way across the continent to build a
:: :: :>:railroad, we don't need a railroad."
:: :: :>
:: :: :>Cute, but hardly the same thing.
:: :: :>
:: :: :>Calculate the mass of your space elevator. Now figure out what it
:: :: :>costs to put up at current launch costs.
:: :: :
:: :: :Why? I have already described the bootstrap process that refutes that
:: :: :arugment.
:: :
:: :: Unfortunately for you, I don't buy into arguments based on handwaving,
:: :: pixie dust, and wishing real hard.
:: :
:: :How un-Republican of you to cast off faith-based prayer. Perhaps you're
:: :really a RINO?
:
:: Well, El Chimpo cycles out of my personal bit bucket at last and is
:: just as stupid as he was when he went in all those months ago.
:
:: What a surprise. Not.
:
:An admission that you believe your own party is whacked?

I see both your reading AND your logical skills are as poor as ever.

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