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(Derek Lyons) wrote:

Joe Strout wrote:

Nonsense -- it's already advanced the state of the art. Just a few of
the new technologies developed and demonstrated:

If you use the marketroid meaning of the word technology... I.E. so
watered down as to be essentially meaningless.

I use the conventional meaning of the word technology, as I use it in my
job as an engineer and as it's used in such publications as "MIT
Technology Review." I notice you didn't bother to actually respond to
any of the examples posted.

If Scaled's accomplishment doesn't impress you, then nothing in the real
world will. Fortunately, your opinion doesn't matter. Suborbital
tourism will be routine in five years, orbital tourism in probably 15,
all tracing back to this month's event for reasons which many reasonable
people have clearly explained to you, and you'll still be either denying
that the most economically productive space industry has anything to do
with space, or denying that it has anything to do with the first
low-cost reusable commercial suborbital spacecraft.

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