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Past Perfect, Future Misleading
Pat Flannery wrote in message ...
Rand Simberg wrote: I have some more commentary on the Gehman report, and why we should not build "the" next generation launch system. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,95930,00.html It's an interesting article, but I think that the analogy between the development of commercial aviation and space commercialization is stretching it a bit...back in the early teens and twenties it was snip *Shorter Pat Flannery* The relevent equation for X-prize is m*g*h The relevent equation for orbital flight is 1/2*m*v^2 There is a qualitative difference. *Bonus Shorter Pat Flannery* Transonic trains would have been nifty, if the whole flight thing didn't work out. __________________________ How close am I? |
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