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- From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Latest Pegasus news?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.004513.12224@ke4zv.uucp>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 00:45:13 GMT
- References: <1992Dec23.201155.29373@microsoft.com> <BzqMxr.MuH@zoo.toronto.edu> <1992Dec27.164247.20711@ke4zv.uucp> <1992Dec27.203327.21241@iti.org>
- Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
- Organization: Destructive Testing Systems
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- In article <1992Dec27.203327.21241@iti.org> aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec27.164247.20711@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:
- >
- >>And to think, it was only last year that Pegasus was the net's darling
- >>that was going to bring the cost of space travel down to nil.
- >
- >I think you will be very hard pressed to find anybody who thought
- >Pegasus was going to bring the cost of space travel to nil. That wasn't
- >its goal.
- >
- >>bandwagons are not only crowded, they also seem to be short lived. It's
- >>funny that the flaws only show up when something actually flies.
- >
- >We may all be thankful that the people at OSC are willing to try things
- >to see if they will work. Left to you, nobody would ever try anything
- >since everything which doesn't exist today, in your view, can't be done
- >and won't work. Progress is never made by pesismist.
-
- You misrepresent my position. All I'm saying is that new systems are
- rarely as cheap and easy in metal as they are on paper. That's what
- research and development programs are designed to discover. Only a few
- things that pass through development ever reach mass production as
- cheap and troublefree as they were on paper.
-
- Gary
-
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