Re: Payback - Spacemining Style

John Schilling wrote:
On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:06:10 -0800, American <samuelransom@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Enthusiasts are meant to believe that delays in earth-
to-orbit technology are the result of lack of capital,
or technology, or the inability to integrate systems
into the bureaucracy of entrenched shuttle or space-
station diplomacy. Such would be the case if unheal-
thy market conditions existed for lone entrepreneurs
to prosper. Most of those 'lone entrepreneurs" seem
to be going the same way as Beal Aerospace did, with
increasing red tape causing approval delays as well
as expensive glitches causing flight delays and
equipment malfunction.

[...]

We're supposed to read a 300-line post by someone who
goes so far astray in the first paragraph?

I'm not aware of any of the current entrepreneurial
space start-ups being substantially limited in what
they can do with their real hardware by any excess of red tape, and using red tape as an excuse for not
having real hardware is just whining.

So, for that matter, was Beal's "But the Eeeeevil
government is paying people who are Not Me to launch
spacecraft for them - how dare they interfere with
the market like that!".

The market for EELVs really worked out since 2000, didn't it.
.