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- From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)
- Subject: Re: Stupid Shut Cost arguements (was Re: Terminal Velocity
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.120730.6326@iti.org>
- Organization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow
- References: <72958@cup.portal.com> <1993Jan6.025846.15440@iti.org> <1idkmgINNak1@phantom.gatech.edu>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 12:07:30 GMT
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- In article <1idkmgINNak1@phantom.gatech.edu> matthew@phantom.gatech.edu (Matthew DeLuca) writes:
-
- >>Facilities costs can be paid with the interest on the savings.
-
- >It's statements like this that make me wince when I read your posts.
-
- >You can't get interest on money just because you don't spend it;
-
- It's just an expression! All I am saying is that the cost of facilities
- is only a few hundred million $$. I realize that nobody is going to
- actually collect any interest; I was simply using an expression to show
- how small the expense would be compared to the savings.
-
- >Besides, even if we do save all the money you claim, I don't see it being a
- >fair trade for scrapping chunks of the U.S. aerospace industry in favor of
- >the Russian industry.
-
- Far from scraping, this will SAVE large chunks of US aerospace. The
- Russians will get contracts worth maybe $250M per year. In return, the
- US commercial launch market will roughly double producing about $1.5
- billion in new MLV orders.
-
- More importantly, US space will be working not to maintain an
- albatros but to reducing the cost of space access and growing the
- space market. We will see a stronger growing space effort to replace
- the dying and stagnant one we suffer with today.
-
- Allen
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