Re: Cheap Access to Space

On 19 Dec, 13:34, simberg.interglo...@xxxxxxxxx (Rand Simberg) wrote:
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 02:49:02 -0800 (PST), in a place far, far away,
Ian Parker <ianpark...@xxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:





Their more than qualified expertise in such physics and now more than
proven as reliable fly-by-rocket technology doesn't or at least
shouldn't require a "lost leader", especially when just about every
other nation on Earth is begging for the best and least cost
alternatives of getting the most of whatever payload deployed while
using the best failsafe of methods in exchange for each of their hard
earned loot. Unless artificially created by the likes of us, there's
no ulterior or even perpetrated cold-war motives for China to fail at
delivering the most rocket deployed bang for our badly energy inflated
buck, perhaps a good enough deal for us even if they charged ten fold
whatever it's costing for the same as having deployed one of their
own.
- Brad Guth- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I don't know whether this is true of false but any claim needs
extensive verification.

You can count on almost anything Guth writes being false. If you were
a little smarter, you'd have realized that years ago, as we have.

As you know the role for NASA which I
postulate is primerally that of a regulator.

You postulate nonsense. NASA has no such role.- Hide quoted text -

First of all Brad Guth. Where he is taking about Venus not being hot -
yes I will agree with you. I think the points raised here are valid
and worthy of discusion. Indeed the role of NASA at the moment is that
of being a prime developer of technology. This role will have to
change if we are ever to get cheap access. By this I don't necessarily
mean that I think NASA is incompetant. Simply that you cannot have
cheap access unless one has a proper market.

A market requires technology developments to be privately financed. If
they are not then there is not competition on a level playing field. I
think you are inclined to want it both ways, you want private
developments in space (code for space tourism) but you want hidden
subsidies, you do not want true transparancy.

Here am I - a left winger advocating a free market. Here are you a
right winger advocating Socialism. What is the world coming to?


- Ian Parker
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