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- From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
- Subject: Re: Terminal Velocity of DCX? (was Re: Shuttle ...)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.123030.29039@ke4zv.uucp>
- Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
- Organization: Gannett Technologies Group
- References: <ewright.723847855@convex.convex.com> <1992Dec10.195138.16873@ke4zv.uucp> <ewright.724443346@convex.convex.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 12:30:30 GMT
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- In article <ewright.724443346@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
- >
- >There are different ways of designing redundancy into a system. Some
- >reduce the probability of a failure, others increase it. Engineers
- >are taught to recognize the difference, maximize the former, and minimize
- >the latter. Your multi-megawatt generators wouldn't work very well,
- >either, if the engineers were the kind of blithering idiots that you
- >assume everyone who works on SSTO must be.
-
- No, I don't assume the engineers working on SSTO are blithering idiots,
- just some of the posters making bizzare claims comparing 747s and LEMs
- to DC fit that description. I expect that the engineers actually working
- on the program fully realize what new ground they are breaking and what
- risks their program represents.
-
- Gary
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