Rand Simberg ) wrote:
: On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 18:27:09 +0000 (UTC), in a place far, far away,
: (Eric Chomko) made the phosphor on my
: monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

: : What incentive does private industry have to build a next generation
: : launch vehicle?
:
: : For profit.
:
: And right now the only profit in space other than comm sats is from public
: funds.

: Well, since the future (when this will be happening) isn't right now,
: your comment (like almost all of your comments) is pointless.

ANd you have no idea when the future will be. Commercial space, like
nanotechnology, doesn't exist right now other than on paper (i.e. no one
is truing a single dollar on it).

No doubt someday we will have both, but you can't say when. So that makes
any comments that you have pointless and vague as usual.

Eric