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R&D and the Private Sector
Michael Walsh :
Allen Meece wrote: The home computer industry was started in a garage in Palo Alto. No government money. Not one centavo. Yes, and it looks like Scaled Composites is doing a similar thing by making a sub orbital transport without guvmnt assistance. It won't be too hard to scale it up to orbital transportation. The private sector can take us to space. All they have to remember is to not try to make ships when boats will do. ^ //^\\ ~~~ near space elevator ~~~~ ~~~members.aol.com/beanstalkr/~~~ Would you like to take a shot at describing how you believe that Scaled Composites could scale up its X-Prize contender to orbital transportation and why you beleive it would not be "too hard". If you define "too hard" as meaning it is possible then I can agree, but it would not be easy and the term "scale up" is a bit misleading for something that would require a complete redesign to carry throught to completion. I note that I use the term "possible" to cover situations where the probablility of success is very low. Mike Walsh One main thing. Don't expect the uses of scaled up sub-orbitals to be the same as what we use most present rockets for. The mistake of the older mainframe and mini companies that no longer exist who laughted at micros was that they compared what thier machines could do and the limits on the first micros and saw them as not very useful. But the micros first created new markets and in time some of those markets diplaced or replace some of the old markets of minis and mainframes. Don't make the mistake that this is only computers, the same happened with the first steam ships, the first cars and to shock of railways airplane were able to take away most of thier passenger customers. Earl Colby Pottinger -- I make public email sent to me! Hydrogen Peroxide Rockets, OpenBeos, SerialTransfer 3.0, RAMDISK, BoatBuilding, DIY TabletPC. What happened to the time? http://webhome.idirect.com/~earlcp |
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