On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:57:12 -0600, in a place far, far away, "Fred J.
McCall" made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

Bottom line is that these costs (getting to the Moon, putting a pound
in LEO) have not dropped appreciably in decades. Claims that such a
price drop will magically happen seem to simply fly in the face of
reality.

No one claims that it will happen through magic.