On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 00:47:37 +0100, Ian Woollard
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What do you need to go exponential?
> - peroxide supply?
> - speed of building rockets?
These are the constraining factors. The biggest hit is simply that we
are all volunteers, and we can't devote all our time to building,
testing, and flying rockets. That isn't likely to go away soon.
> - funding? advertising? Mars bars? Galaxy? Red Bull gives your ERPS wings?
> - media attention?
These would get in the way. Doing the things we would have to do to
get commercial funding would be, for ERPS, a giant rat hole. Media
people need liaisons, and everyone would rather work on rockets than
herd media people.
> - membership?
Having more members always helps, because that way there are more
people willing and able to go out and do the dirty work of maintaining
the infrastructure at the test site. It also means more people to get
together and form project teams. For example, right now, we have two
team working on sparging, one of them is also working on fractional
freezing, and we also have teams working on KISS III, Spike,
Gizmocopter, and POGO.
> - ISP?
> - delta-v?
> - altitude?
And mass fraction: these are the rewards. :-)
-R
--
"Sutton is the beginning of wisdom -
but only the beginning."
-- Jeff Greason
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