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Old January 26th 05, 05:58 PM
Tom Cuddihy
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yo, whatever.
Their graphics are really nifty. But I have a very practical question:
just how do they envision transferring cargo and fuel from the ground
airship to the orbital airship in a near zero atmosphere environment?
The Dark Sky platform they show doesn't literally have a platform on
it. Are there going to spacesuited techs performing all the labor? how
do they move around the platform?

At the most basic level, they talk about using the Dark Sky platform to
actually inflate and launch the orbital airship. How do they plan to do
all this? It's not a question of proprietry technology, either, which
leads one to suspect they don't mention it because they haven't figured
out how to do it yet.

Tom Cuddihy