AsterAnts

>
> > > It takes only a 2 or 3 days to go
> > > to the Moon, but perhaps 8 months to Mars, and this is a
> discussion of going
> > > a comparable or greater distance.
>
> Time is only a significant factor when you send people.
>

Completely false.

We have discussed this before but you apparently were not paying
attention.

You also apparently have no real world experience in managing large
projects.

Time is money. Money is everything.

The bigger the project, the higher the cost of debt service, and the
more the time pressure.

This is illustrated by unmanned communications satellites today.
They use high thrust rockets
to get themselves on station as quickly as possible even though low
thrust ion drives would be more efficient.
They need to get the revenue stream started as quickly as possible, and
the cost saving of ion drives are outweighed many times over by the high
cost of debt service.

Time is money. Money is everything.

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