On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:21:09 -0400, Jeff Findley wrote:

"Marvin the Martian" wrote in message
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On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:28:31 -0800, Pat Flannery wrote:

virgin

Why does that crap fascinate so many people? It's a lousy sounding
rocket. It is orders of magnitude away from LEO.

I think people just don't understand. It plays on their ignorance.

It's not intended to be a sounding rocket, so yea, it would obviously
make a lousy sounding rocket, just like my Crown Victoria makes a lousy
pickup truck.

Again, a sounding rocket is one that simply goes up high in the
atmosphere and doesn't even get close to LEO.

That's this thing.

IT is a sounding rocket, "lousy" refers to sounding rockets in contrast
to rockets that can launch a payload to orbit.

The fascination is only for the idiots who don't know the difference.