Re: starship-design: build it now...

[Zenon Kulpa <zkulpa@zmit1.ippt.gov.pl>]

> 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 ;-)]