Alex Fraser wrote: > Can you even imagine a flying car traffic > jam? They'd be falling out of the sky the first rainy day.
Convincing the FAA this won't happen will likely be one of the main hurdles to getting such a thing certified for non-experimental use. As such, I'd bet money (if I were a betting man) on there being sufficient safety systems against this kind of thing, at least at first. > I think we should think about what happens when space is easy to > access. It is called space of course, but over crowding would be created > by the needs of physics. Such as the geo synchronous orbits or special > other places where it is just good to be. Are there rules already on > where you can orbit other than safety rules for getting there? Are there > lanes in space? Space is vast. How vast? Well, let's just say that, in terms of total area for vehicles to occupy (ignoring height), GEO is roughly equivalent to one of DC's main highways as said highway is to a single key on a typical computer keyboard...and that may be understating things. For properly operating satellites and vehicles, we are currently a long way away from significant traffic issues. But note I said "properly operating". Litter is the problem here. (Which, to make this on topic for the list, is one of many reasons why we want SSTOs: they don't discard parts.) Do a Web search on the term "space junk". _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
