Launch Costs

> From: Robert
> first thing is that your assuming that it only occurs after the ship
> reaches mach three. it is more likely that it will occur before it is
> even moving 100 miles an hour. it will then accelerate to mach three,
> giving it somewhat more stability, but by then its already off course.

Launch rockets are not statically stable. They require active control
systems to do anything other than fall over. If the control systems fail on
the scale you're talking about the rocket is not going anywhere. If they do
not fail on the level you are talking about the redundant systems will be
able to either correct the deviation, move into a harmless course, or shut
the engines down.

> i lost my wife due to a c 130 having multiple control system failure.
> dont tell me it does not happen.

And I'm guessing it fell out of the sky rather quickly after that, didn't
it? The complete systems failure didn't cause it fly five hundred miles off
course, did it? I never did tell you such failures didn't happen, I just
said they were very rare. What I am telling you, and what you seem incapable
of acepting, is that an unstable aircraft (unlike a c130 - which is a stable
aircraft) with a dead flight computer WILL depart controlled flight
immediately, and will almost certianly destroy itself in seconds.

John