"Mark" wrote in message
om...
So, um, we're supposed to believe a cost prediction of hugely complex
new projects from the agency that claimed the shuttle would fly 50+
times a year and launch payloads for $250 a pound?

And don't forget our nice new $8.5 billion dollar space station.

That said, do I expect NASA to come in under $229 billion? No. Do I expect
it to cost $1 trillion? Also "no". Do I think news agencies should toss
around numbers based on someone's wild-assed guess? No.

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Regards,
Mike Combs
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We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the
best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the
Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely.
Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable - the best site is
"somewhere else entirely."

Gerard O'Neill - "The High Frontier"