Pat Flannery wrote:

:Without staging, one of the main arguments for a seacoast
:launch site vanishes, and you now have all sorts of options open to you
:as to where you want your launchpad at.

Actually, no. You still have all the usual downrange range safety
issues. This is why launches over water are preferred. If something
goes wrong, you're less likely to hit something you don't own.

The real answer to this is to get reliability provably up to the point
where people think no more of the 'range safety' issues for a launch
than they do for those connected with an airplane taking off.

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