Can't all space nerds get along?

> From: Dan Wylie-Sears
> But it's not obvious that you can't do powersats and platinum with
> current-technology

Double negative. So you agree it is possible then?

And please be more careful with words like technology. What you meant was
'current designs'. The technology we have is more than up to the job of
building something capable of getting into space cheaply and safely. It's
just not up to building the all singing and all dancing
space-plane/transport/fighter that can lift 200 tons to polar orbit, fly
half way round the world after reentry, also function as a 90 minute
passenger ship to Australia, and make chillian fries.

Richard 'the most evil man in the world' Nixen *specifically* *chose* the us
shuttle to be cheap to operate and be expensive to run. As a result he saved
himself about four billion dollars in 1970. Since then we've spent about
FOUR HUNDRED billion on running it. That was a stupid decision. It shouldn't
be that hard to avoid repeating it. The DC-X demonstrated that not every
reusable rocket has to look shuttle shaped nor suffer from the same
problems.

The proof is there. The proof exists. Now people just have to believe it.

John