XPost: misc.misc   
   From: tlsnodgr@mchsi.com   
      
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   Bill the Cat wrote:   
   > Matthew Montchalin  wrote in   
   > news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0412162151250.3854-100000@onyx.spiritone.com:   
   >   
   >   
   >>Even if you feel that it is an   
   >>expensive proposal for a piece of space junk, suppose it was nothing   
   >>more than an exercise to see if it COULD be done.  How expensive would   
   >>it be to produce a ship that can rendezvous with it, grapple with it,   
   >>and bring it into a high orbit around Mars?   
   >   
   >   
   > More expensive than custom-building a hab for the job. And that renders the   
   > whole exercise rather pointless, I'm afraid.   
   >   
   > Here's another exercise: I own a car, and I want a bass boat. We could go   
   > through a whole exercise about how I could convert my car into a bass boat,   
   > and go into considerable detail about how to make it watertight, how to   
   > hook the car engine up to a propeller and the steering wheel up to a   
   > rudder, etc. But it would all be pointless, because 1) even after   
   > conversion, my car will make a far worse bass boat than a real bass boat,   
   > 2) it would be more expensive than just buying a bass boat, and 3) once   
   > I've done it I've lost use of the car. I'd much rather have a exercise   
   > about what kind of bass boat to buy.   
   >   
   > But hey, this is Usenet. You can have whatever discussion you want.   
      
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