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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: launcher costs by type of economy
- Message-ID: <C0CJu8.6sr@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:34:54 GMT
- 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> <1993Jan4.152349.10512@ke4zv.uucp>
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- In article <1993Jan4.152349.10512@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:
- >>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...
-
- Gary, are you really suggesting that "our" launchers are built by free
- enterprise? The Western launcher industry *is* a command economy! Some
- 35 years after it began operation, the very first private-venture launchers
- are just starting to appear... and they're not coming from the mainstream
- launcher industry.
-
- I agree that, other things being equal (an important precondition!), free
- societies are more efficient than command economies. Nobody has yet tried
- building a space program on free enterprise.
- --
- "God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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