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- From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
- Subject: Re: Terminal Velocity of DCX? (was Re: Shuttle ...)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.152349.10512@ke4zv.uucp>
- Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
- Organization: Destructive Testing Systems
- References: <h0l2prg@rpi.edu> <1992Dec16.195416.8422@iti.org> <1992Dec17.163212.20944@eng.umd.edu> <1992Dec22.161111.29439@iti.org> <1992Dec25.002926.4218@ke4zv.uucp> <ewright.725647824@convex.convex.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 15:23:49 GMT
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- In article <ewright.725647824@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
- >In <1992Dec25.002926.4218@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman) writes:
- >
- >>Nonsense. The Russians have built no space stations and are having
- >>trouble raising the funds to operate the one they inherited from
- >>the Soviet Union. Comparing what was done by a command economy using
- >>what amounts to slave labor to what's done in an open society where
- >>people expect to get paid fairly for their work is meaningless accounting.
- >
- >Well, Gary, some of us have the theory that free societies are
- >more efficient than "command economies."
-
- Then our launchers should be cheaper than theirs. And what I'm saying
- above is that indeed I think they are when all their hidden costs are
- properly assigned.
-
- Gary
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