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Old October 7th 04, 09:26 AM
Paul Blay
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"AA Institute" wrote ...
"Paul Blay" wrote ...
"AA Institute" wrote ...
Cost is the *only* issue here. Since *one* human life is infinitely
more precious than a trillion dollars (as evidenced by the world's
utter shock and horror in the wake of the Columbia tragedy), safe
human cargo transportation will foreseeably always remain a
bottleneck.


Nope. In fact human space flight has got the safety angle _all_
wrong. It's easily demonstrated that the less people are killed
the more significant it is.
42,000 fatalities in road accidents in the USA? Not news.
295 fatalities in rail accidents? News
7 fatalities in space accidents? Mega news.

The obvious answer is that we need to get people up there,
and dying, in droves.


Heartless...


The correct equation isn't "Paul Blay" = Heartless but
"AA Institute" = Humourless

That said there was a significant (if far from unique) point
not very well hidden in my post. See if you can spot it.
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Old October 7th 04, 10:55 PM
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"Paul Blay" wrote in message news:ck2uj5$je9$1


The obvious answer is that we need to get people up there,
and dying, in droves.


Heartless...



That said there was a significant (if far from unique) point
not very well hidden in my post. See if you can spot it.


You didn't spot the three dots I put after I wrote the word
"heartless"; that means I was joking.
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Old October 8th 04, 02:17 AM
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On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 00:36:35 +0100, in a place far, far away, Martin
Frey made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

(Rand Simberg) wrote:

You didn't spot the three dots I put after I wrote the word
"heartless"; that means I was joking.


Not to most people. That's a new usage for an ellipsis.


New to you perhaps.


Yes, new to me. How would I know for sure to whom else it's new to?
I only know that I've never seen it used for that purpose before, and
I read (and write) a lot. Perhaps you're part of the weird minority
to whom that would have been obvious.
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Old October 8th 04, 02:18 AM
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On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 01:32:37 +0100, in a place far, far away, Alan
LeHun made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:

In article ,
says...
You didn't spot the three dots I put after I wrote the word
"heartless"; that means I was joking.

Not to most people. That's a new usage for an ellipsis.


New to you perhaps.


Fancy that. Tens of thousands of man-hours, hundreds of lives, billions
of pounds, all expended on the development of the smiley. And all along
we could have just used an ellipsis...


Martin and "AA" seem to live in a different universe than the rest of
us...
 




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