From: earlcp@idirect.com   
      
   schillin@spock.usc.edu (John Schilling) :   
      
   > And we get more than enough True Believers here, sure that they and their   
   > designated rocket-building heroes have the One True Way to Space, ready   
   > to spark a Holy War with all the unbelievers who still cling to their   
   > winged/VTVL/hydrogen/airbreathing/kerosine/hydrogen/airbreathing/rocket/   
   > SSTO/TSTO/BDB concepts.   
   >   
   > And they're all wrong.  There *is* no One True Way, but a diverse   
   assortment   
   > of concepts whose relative merit is very sensitive to details impossible   
   > to pin down in any absolute sense at this time.   
      
   Worse, there probably are 'One True Way's for certain markets, but outside of   
   that market that way of doing things is at a major disavantage that promises   
   to bankrupt anyone trying to push that 'One True Way'.   
      
           Earl Colby Pottinger   
      
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