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DanS

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March 27, 2006, 11:01

FYI, the Germans were doing suborbital rocketry, which is an order of magnitude lower energy proposition.

Just look at the table that I posted. In the history of orbital rocketry, only 4,700 launch attempts have occurred. This means the process is more of a novelty than an every day occurrence. Because it's a novelty, it's expensive and unsafe. Because it's expensive and unsafe, it's a novelty.

I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891
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