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**Michael Stemper**

In article , (Scott Lurndal) writes:
writes:

No amount of cleaver engineering can reduce the cost of getting to the
Moon, much less Mars or the asteroid belt, to be on a par with getting
a truck some tens of miles to a mine on Earth.

An opinion not shared by most, I would imagine.

Some people think that the cost of climbing out of a gravity well to
the Moon and dragging stuff back down can be on a par with the cost
of hauling the same type of stuff tens of miles in a truck that doesn't
have to climb up and down the gravity well?

Fascinating.

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Michael F. Stemper
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