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Re: Re: starship-design: build it now...
> From: KellySt@aol.com
>
> >===Is what we really want, a super cannon so cheap to
> > build that Mauritania can have all the satellites it
> > wants? The threshold for non shall we say governmental
> > institutions, e.g. gangs, to have hypervelocity artillery,
> > is crossed long before the smallest nations put up their
> > peaceful scientific payloads. ==
>
> Interesting. That was the same logic the White House and DOD used to stop
> funding of low cost launcher studies. The high cost of access to space keeps
> the lessor natinos and groups out of the big guys battle space. NOt the best
> reason in the world to lock a frountier.
>
I fully agree with Kelly here.
Sorry for possible breach of netiquette with such an "one-liner",
but I have thought it important to state my opinion on this issue.
-- Zenon Kulpa