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Re: starship-design: Finances
In a message dated 1/31/02 2:27:16 AM, jakesmiley@netzero.net writes:
>Hello...
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> I'm missing the connection between airplanes and space travel. What
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>makes you think that they can be compared correctly?
Eaither way you go to a port, get in the craft, fly to somewhere within a
couple hours distence, and get out. Even the same energy requirements to
space adn across oceans.
>I think Toxic Roach
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>pointed out the difference between space travel and flying best when he
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>said, "people do it [flying] to get where they need/want to go". You might
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>have people want to go into space, but I doubt that anyone will ever _need_
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>to go.
You have 2 types of passengers. Want to go (tourists) and need to go
(busness). You'll have both to space, or their won't be routine flights.
> Also, airlines have always suffered the repercussions of accidents.
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>People don't stand in line for an airline that kills its customers. The
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>reason you don't usually hear about the airline industry going bust every
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>time there's an accident is because, typically, only one airline suffers.
Actually virtually no airline ever went out of busness due to a accident.
Not even massive multi hundred passenger ones. Only due to incompetence.
Even tourists overlook accidents, if the airline didn't screw up stupidly.
> Anyway... I guess I should reconsider my position on the novelty of
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>spaceflight. Not because of Las Vegas, no the secret of Las Vegas is greed
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>and lust.
No its entertainment. The bulk of Vegas tourists don't hang out in te xrated
places, and absolutly know they won't make any money.
Like any other tourist mecha - folks go there to have some fun. From the
Grand canyon, to Mall or America, to Disneyland.
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> I have my doubts about those surveys that say most people want to go.
> I
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>talk to people about it and their first response is always, "Wow. That'd
>be
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>neat." However, if you keep talking to them you'll discover that they
>don't
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>even consider it a possibility. How accurate can these surveys be?
These inclue ones from tourist industries used to feeling out how real the
intrest is, especially at various costs per trip.
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> C'mon... It's a war on the other side of the world, where we're bombing
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>a country forward into the stone-age. Morally, sure it's a big thing.
> But
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>from a service provider POV, this shouldn't be such a big deal.
At a billion dollars a month, its a good market. ;)
Not to mentionj the cost of all that equip used there.
> I don't understand the ocean liner question. Are you trying to say
>the
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>fact that you offer an exclusive service will allow you to survive?
No, liners like space platforms, ae closed issolated "trips". Especially the
long ocean ones.
> Not enough bandwidth? What are we trying to do? Play UT on a LAN
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>system? ;] I'm talking about raw data. No pictures, no sounds, no perks
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>whatsoever.
Sorry, no such thing anymore.
What do you think this is going to be used for?
>Distributed computing isn't for the users, it's for data
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>crunching.
What data?
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>-JS