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- From: glp7584@tamuts.tamu.edu (Gordon Lee Powell Jr)
- Subject: Re: Still on the X-30
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.172550.21964@tamsun.tamu.edu>
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- References: <92236.132738PDC103@psuvm.psu.edu> <1992Aug27.021252.4459@nntp.uoregon.edu> <1992Aug27.223615.21246@netlabs.com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 17:25:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug27.223615.21246@netlabs.com> lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug27.021252.4459@nntp.uoregon.edu> ggiles@cie.uoregon.edu (Gregg Giles) writes:
- >: [re: SSTO minimal payload]
- >: Sure, the first version of such a vehicle would probably have a small
- >: payload capacity. But think about this: the Wright brothers couldn't take
- >: much with them, either. Now we have the C5 Galaxy. Think about it. :-)
- >THINK about it? How depressing. I don't like thinking about things
- >that will take 70 years to do, if your analogy holds...
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- I think the advance of technology is not considered to be a linear
- process.
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- Perhaps at an exponential rate, it won't take quite that long.
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- Gordon L. Powell, Jr. '89 glp7584@zeus.tamu.edu (VMS on VAX 9000)
- Aero Engr Texas A&M Univ. gordon@aero.tamu.edu (D. U. on S. C.)
- Oh well, some people can flame in a nitrogen environment.--Les Earnest
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