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January 6th 20, 11:02 PM
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January 7th 20, 01:04 AM
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On Jan/6/2020 at 18:02, Jeff Findley wrote :
In article , says... 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? 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? :-) Alain Fournier
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January 7th 20, 12:03 PM
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On Jan/7/2020 at 06:52, Jeff Findley wrote :
In article , says... On Jan/6/2020 at 18:02, Jeff Findley wrote : In article , says... 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? 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. Or: Leotaxi Doesn't sound as glamorous as Starliner though. ;-) I'm glad to see that we agree on this important matter. :-) Alain Fournier
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January 8th 20, 06:05 PM
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"Jeff Findley" wrote in message
... In article , says... On Jan/6/2020 at 18:02, Jeff Findley wrote : In article , says... 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? 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. Or: Leotaxi Well it can navigate too, so.. a Leonav-Taxi... Say it with a soft A.. Doesn't sound as glamorous as Starliner though. ;-) Jeff -- Greg D. Moore http://greenmountainsoftware.wordpress.com/ CEO QuiCR: Quick, Crowdsourced Responses. http://www.quicr.net IT Disaster Response - https://www.amazon.com/Disaster-Resp...dp/1484221834/
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January 11th 20, 08:43 PM
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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 ... In article , says... On Jan/6/2020 at 18:02, Jeff Findley wrote : In article , says... 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
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June 26th 20, 02:21 AM
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With a quizzical look, Jeff Findley observed:
In article , says... On Jan/6/2020 at 18:02, Jeff Findley wrote : In article , says... 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? 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. Or: Leotaxi Doesn't sound as glamorous as Starliner though. ;-) While I like Greg's suggestion, I'll put Leoliner on the table just for completeness. /dps "It's for the mane event" -- "I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it" _Roughing It_, Mark Twain
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