Re: Barack Obama Pits Space Explorers Against School Children

On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:51:58 GMT, in a place far, far away,
simberg.interglobal@xxxxxxxxx (Rand Simberg) made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 12:17:46 -0800 (PST), in a place far, far away, Ian
Parker <ianparker2@xxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:
If you look at space from an othodox scientific/economic perspective
one or two things become clear. The first of these is that there is no
magic formula to lower costs. If there were someone would now be
building a cheap LEO reusable vehicle.

Yes, of course. In fact we would have had it three thousand years
ago.

<rest of typical Ian stupidity snipped>

I should also point out how idiotic it is to, in the same paragraph,
talk about "othodox scientific/economic perspective" [sic] and "a
magic formula" for launch costs.

What a loon. Ian wouldn't know a scientific perspective if it fell on
his head from an apple tree.
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