On Sun, 09 Feb 2003 15:50:37 -0500, Alex Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> - No communications network. You could only talk to satellite a couple of times >a week. There are no LEO orbits that don't pass above the comm center's horizon at least once a day. > - Lastly a mental image of someone calling your transport service to get a >package to the far side of the globe quick. A brown truck appears at their door, you >get the package and the check, take it to the truck, stuff it in the nose cone and >launch right from their parking lot. Cash the check before it lands. This is right out of fantasy. We're trying to emulate airplane operations, and I'm not sure we'll ever be able to. But airplanes can't do this. Even helicopters can't take off from some random parking lot somewhere. -R -- Every complex, difficult problem has a simple, easy solution - which is wrong. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
