"Rand Simberg" wrote in message
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You are now saying that SPS is "absurd" given the current space launch
capability of the world.

I'm saying that because anyone with a lick of engineering knowledge
who's studied the problem has come to that conclusion.

anyone with a lick of engineering knowledge has long since come to teh
conclusion that SPS doesn't work, Rand. Why do you find that so hard to
accept?

So now you have to assume some magic booster gets

No magic. Just intelligently designed.

so you're saying that all the current booster designs are...not
intelligently designed?

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