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The Rough Road To Space
Why Ares/Orion is not like the Interstate Highway System:
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-rough-road-to-space/ |
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The Rough Road To Space
On Jun 19, 4:17*pm, (Rand Simberg)
wrote: Why Ares/Orion is not like the Interstate Highway System: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-rough-road-to-space/ In the article you wrote: "Sadly, the analogy fails in a way that would be laughable if it weren’t so tragic. Perhaps this analogy might make sense if the Interstate Highway System (IHS) were capable of handling only one four-passenger car at a time (with the passengers only employees of the government) a few times a year at a cost of billions of dollars per cross-country trip, and the cars had to be destroyed upon return." Sure, with the Ares, that seems not too plausible. Therefore, Don't you remember the Mook posts for heavy lift "Orion" type propulsion? (I've got some poop on that one) After all, the key word here is "plausible". Seems like there's no question of who's doing the real spin here - it's those who can only expect a payoff of tax dollars in the short term, not the long, R&D intensive long one, for that matter. IMO, that'd be a purely bureaucratic spin-kind-of-thing. (But we're only scratching the surface here) American |
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The Rough Road To Space
On Jun 19, 1:17 pm, (Rand Simberg)
wrote: Why Ares/Orion is not like the Interstate Highway System: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-rough-road-to-space/ Instead of CATS(cheap access to space), we had our mutually perpetrated cold wars that took many decades and cost the rest of us trillions upon trillions of our hard earned loot. Now we have yet another phony war that's mostly over Iraq oil and otherwise about creating as much global energy inflation as possible. Go figure. - Brad Guth Brad_Guth Brad.Guth BradGuth |
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The Rough Road To Space
On 20 Jun, 05:52, BradGuth wrote:
On Jun 19, 1:17 pm, (Rand Simberg) wrote: Why Ares/Orion is not like the Interstate Highway System: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-rough-road-to-space/ Instead of CATS(cheap access to space), we had our mutually perpetrated cold wars that took many decades and cost the rest of us trillions upon trillions of our hard earned loot. *Now we have yet another phony war that's mostly over Iraq oil and otherwise about creating as much global energy inflation as possible. *Go figure. - Brad Guth Brad_Guth Brad.Guth BradGuth $140 a barrel! If the Iraq war was over oil it has been a spectacular failure. - Ian Parker |
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The Rough Road To Space
On 20 Jun 2008 12:14:53 -0700, in a place far, far away, A.Melon
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: Rand Simberg wrote: Why Ares/Orion is not like the Interstate Highway System: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-rough-road-to-space/ I have no sympathy for GW Bush's insane desire for space travel programs. And we have no sympathy for your insane Bush derangement, and inability to follow the point of an essay. |
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