Remove starship-design: AsterAnts

["Viren Shah" <voshah@worldnet.att.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: <KellySt@aol.com>
To: <starship-design@lists.uoregon.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: starship-design: AsterAnts


>
> In a message dated 3/27/02 9:24:46 AM, clmanges@yahoo.com writes:
>
> >> ... Oh wait, their is no launch cost for water.  Its just caried
> >> along on
> >> shuttle flights to carry crew or other suplies.  The extra weight
> >> isn't
> >> significant, and causes no real increse in shuttle costs.
> >>
> >
> >Excuse me?? I thought _everything_ had a launch cost. And the weight
> >_is_ significant, about 60 lb/cubic foot.
>
> DA!  It costs the about the same amount to launch a empty shuttle as a
full
> one.  They have to launch the shuttle to the station to take up the
> astronauts, and seldom have less then 10 tons of extra cargo capacity per
> launch.  So lifting another ton of water, in a ship thats going there
anyway,
> costs about nothing.
>
>
> >
> >Curtis
>
> Kelly