XPost: sci.astro, sci.physics, sci.space.policy   
   From: fjmccall@gmail.com   
      
   Doc O'Leary   wrote on Tue, 12 Jun   
   2018 14:36:47 -0000 (UTC):   
      
   >For your reference, records indicate that   
   >Jeff Findley  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Sure, sure, Star Trek style transporters with infinite range.  I'll get   
   >> right on that.   
   >   
   >No, you won’t.  But you apparently *will* use it as a straw man to avoid   
   >actually addressing the likelihood that new technologies developed in   
   >the future will change the economies of space launches.  Hell, that’s   
   >essentially what SpaceX is demonstrating today.   
   >   
      
   Nope.  SpaceX is using OLD technologies in slightly new ways.  That's   
   what engineers do.  What you're talking about is, well, what loons do.   
      
      
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