On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 01:12:09 GMT, in a place far, far away, Michael
Walsh made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:



Rand Simberg wrote:

On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 11:55:30 -0500, in a place far, far away, "Terrell
Miller" made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

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?

Because it's not true. That's the opinion of many, but not all.

Ah me. Another thread where I have some sympathy with the basic argument,
when it is whether or not SPS is both doable and going further down the line

economic. The problem is that making claims such as "anyone with a lick of
engineering knowledge has come to the conclusion that SPS doesn't work is
demonstratably false".

However, that is not the same as the claim that the SPS works. I claim
that is unproven.

Of course. But Mr. Terrell believes otherwise, even though he
demonstrates ignorance of the basic principles.

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

Yes. Not when it comes to low cost.

Now we can get to the matter of what qualifies as intelligently
designed.

Intelligently designed in the sense that they didn't start with first
principles to achieve low cost--find a large market, and satisfy it.

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