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To: Uncle Peter
This guy's done the math. He's an actual aerospace engineer.
11 posted on 03/07/2007 10:56:14 AM PST by NonZeroSum
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To: NonZeroSum
This person claims to be able to reduce launch cost's down by a magnutude of 1000. In his own words: "If you can deliver a ton per flight, that would be a million flights. Let's say that the marginal cost per flight is a hundred thousand or so (I think we can do a lot better than that). That would be a hundred billion dollar program"

STOP RIGHT HERE! Is this genius not aware of the fact that there are only a eight suitable launch facilities in the ENTIRE world? That would be Kourou - FG, Cape Canaveral - FL, Vandenberg AFB - CA, Xichang - China, Baikonur - Khazakhstan, Tanegashima - Japan, Wallops Island Flight Facility, VA, and Pacific Ocean platform.

Let's Do The Math


14 posted on 03/07/2007 11:31:13 AM PST by Uncle Peter
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