Nah, you guys are all missing it....

Orbicab.... The next UberLyft, but we aren't calling it that.... :-P

Dave

On 2020-01-08 1:05 PM, Greg (Strider) Moore wrote:
"Jeff Findley"Â* wrote in message
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On Jan/6/2020 at 18:02, Jeff Findley wrote :
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Niklas Holsti wrote:

On 2020-01-06 14:19, Jeff Findley wrote:
SpaceX clearly sees Dragon 2 as a
stepping stone to Starliner, ...
Ahem. I assume you mean "Starship", don't you?

(Damn this hyperbolic fashion of using "star" in naming
spacecraft not
designed for interstellar travel.)

Heh. The Starship is more of a Starliner than the Starliner.

The Starliner would more properly be named Starrowboat.

How about Startaxi?Â* That would fit its purpose.

I would expect an airport-taxi to offer rides to the airport, a
city-taxi to offer rides around the city and a Startaxi to offer rides
to the stars. Even if you include the Sun as a star, Starliner is a
several orders of magnitudes short of being worthy of the Startaxi
moniker.

How about Taxi-Leo? :-)

Agreed.Â* Or:Â* Leotaxi


Well it can navigate too, so.. a

Leonav-Taxi... Say it with a soft A..


Doesn't sound as glamorous as Starliner though.Â* ;-)

Jeff