Update:
I guess I asked for it when I sent that email to the Space Show. Here's the email I sent:
If a wish could be granted, and it was politically possible , could the Sea Dragon concept work toward the goal to lowering launch costs?
It looks like I was "dreamy" about the big dumb rocket. Sorry, but I don't agree. If the object is to lower costs of launch, this is the best deal going. It can't be a manned rocket, but you don't need that. That's the problem that the launch industry has. Everybody wants things that they can't have. A big dumb rocket will send cargo. A suitable rocket will send crew. Yet another rocket can send medium size stuff. But they try to put it all into a one size fit all package. It won't work that way. Just as I wrote before, The Shuttle was that kind of system, a one size fits all. They put too much on the plate for that launch platform. Consequently, they violated the KISS principle, and vastly overspent on it. It was unavoidable given what they were trying to do, and how they were trying to do it.
Who's to blame? Everybody. But eventually, it comes down to the President. If he wanted it, he would get it. But there's that word again, "if".
Update:
This is what I mean by "crap"- Krugman and the New York Times. But, there's plenty of "crap" coming from the other direction also. You can't fund wars and lower taxes at the same time. Yet that is what the "conservatives" want to do. Between those two sides in this excrement storm, we don't stand a chance of seeing anything resembling reality.
Update:
Gold hits 1500 and pulls back a little. That's reality. Budget deals in Washington are a foolish little sideshow. Read this.
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