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Well, Richard Hoaxland, er, Hoagland has now declared it a Russian
shootdown of a giant extraterrestrial craft, so the joke's on all of
us, it seems.

That guy is a dumb@ss, plain and simple.

Jeff
--
"the perennial claim that hypersonic airbreathing propulsion would
magically make space launch cheaper is nonsense -- LOX is much cheaper
than advanced airbreathing engines, and so are the tanks to put it in
and the extra thrust to carry it." - Henry Spencer