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Re: starship-design: build it now...
> From: KellySt@aol.com
>
> >> 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
> > a "one-liner", but I have thought it important to
> > state my opinion on this issue.
> >
> > -- Zenon Kulpa
>
> Thank you.
>
> Actually the logic kinda scares me the more I think about it. Don't built
> the space craft because it could be misused. The same logic would have
> canceled aircraft, household cleners, computers.
>
Do not forget the knife!
-- Zenon [Pardon the one-liner again ;-)]