Re: Vision of the three Rs: Regular, Reliable and Reusable

On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:34:38 GMT, in a place far, far away,
fairwater@xxxxxxxxx (Derek Lyons) made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

"Eric Chomko" <pne.chomko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Create might be to direct a word but there is nothing wrong with
demand being created out of byproducts of research. Think of the
ARPAnet turned Internet and how the latter has been an economic boon.
Surely the ARPAnet wasn't created to create a demand as it were.

There's a key difference between ARPAnet and subsidized launches of
H2O however.

ARPANET was created to fulfill a specific and existing need. The
welfare in space program is designed to funnel money to people who
would otherwise be unable to get it, it does not fulfill and existing
needs - and is only useful are some arbitrary date in the future for
some hopeful uses.

The particular "welfare" proposed here would at least have the effect
of reducing launch costs, which is something that both NASA and the
DoD require, or at least would find highly useful.
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