TGD(ver 1.0) Waste of Time

Hi Al,

If anybody in this country wants to develop any kind of space launch
vehicle they will be told by the BNSC that it is against Government
policy to permit such vehicles to be developed. The fact that this is an
outright lie is beside the point. It is what they will be told. You seem
to be saying that this is not relevant as to why such vehicles are not
being developed!

Before you can develop anything you need funding. Money men are
sensitive. As soon as they hear that kind of thing they shear off. So
long as a government body such as BNSC gives out that line there will be
no such development in this country no matter how good the designs may
be. Accordingly, to imply, as you did earlier, that the reason there is
lack of funding is because of incompetence of design is nonsense.

Best wishes, Andy.

Al Globus wrote:

>
> andy-nimmo wrote:
>
> > You say, "Any number of people have made these kinds of claims in
> the
> > past. Some of them with no connection to the US. None have
> > produced." I've just told you why those developed over here were not
>
> > produced.
>
> You provided one hypothesis as to why they have not produced. It's
> not
> unreasonable, but I don't think it fits the data. Several countries
> have
> developed launch vehicles with little or no connection to the U.S.
> (China, India, USSR), some of these countries have been active enemies
>
> of the U.S. The notion that U.S. pressure prevented these folks from
> building $100/lb to LEO vehicles seems unlikely. BTW: the new Indian
> launcher just suffered a failure.
>
> Here's another hypothesis: I'm a programmer. When my programs fail, I
>
> can examine the wreckage and usually figure out what happened. If I
> designed rocket engines, when they failed there would be little pieces
>
> of metal over the place and some telemetry until shortly before the
> failure. Figuring out what happened is a little more difficult.
> Fixing
> it requires building a whole new rocket, not just changing a few
> characters in a file. Talk to anyone who's actually built a rocket
> that
> will go on a predictable trajectory.
>
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