On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:26:58PM -0800, Randall Clague wrote: > 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. >
Not to mention that the idea that various govts are not going to intervene if you start flinging what are essentially ballistic missiles around, is optimistic at best. However, a ballistic service from rocket port A to rocketport B is another matter. I could see that happening. -- Jim Richardson http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock A bad day, is when aliens attack, the dog bites you, and your boss tells you that the new client wants to make a few changes before delivery. Linux, super computers, office computers, or home computers, it works. _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
