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- From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Terminal Velocity of DCX? (was Re: Shuttle ...)
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 18:34:21 GMT
- Organization: UDSI
- Lines: 35
- Message-ID: <1hvefdINNpbe@mirror.digex.com>
- References: <1992Dec25.002926.4218@ke4zv.uucp> <1hfqr6INN387@mirror.digex.com> <1992Dec31.001942.11805@ke4zv.uucp>
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- In article <1992Dec31.001942.11805@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:
- >In article <1hfqr6INN387@mirror.digex.com> prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:
- >>i dont believe the russians have ever been charged with using slave
- >>labor. Now the russians had a strange command economy, but things still
- >>cost, but there were major problems in distribution. the russian/SU
- >>economy was sorta like massachusetts meets new york via sweden.
- >>
- >
- >I agree with all of this. My point was that all those social services,
- >which in our system are paid out of worker salaries, were paid out of
- >a different account that wasn't charged against their space program.
- >So using their numbers is an invalid comparison with numbers from a
- >differently organized economy because many of their costs are "hidden"
- >in other government accounts. That looks like it's changing, and we
- >may soon discover that Russian costs *aren't* really much lower than
- >ours for similar launchers.
- >
-
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-
- Complaining about socialized economies having strange costing rules
- is significantly differennt then stating that the russians
- use slave labor. Certainly comparing DoD costs to Commercial sector
- costs to French Costs to Soviet Costs to Chinese costs is a difficult
- problem.
-
- I am certain that after the re-organization is done, we will discover russian
- costs are closer to ours, but i believe they will be able to provide
- launch services cheaper then ours, due to their economies of scale.
-
- Hopefully DC-1 will still remain competitive against their sausage
- factory lines.
-
- pat
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