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Subject: SPACE Digest V13 #218
SPACE Digest Volume 13 : Issue 218
Today's Topics:
Magellan Images
Re: Numerology, theology
Re: Government vs. Commercial R&D
FTP site for satellite data
re request for combined Earth satallite photo
Re: ET...Again (was ONE SMALL STEP - REPLY)
Re: Terraforming, sun shield
Re: SOLAR TERRESTRIAL FORECAST AND REVIEW
GGreetings
Re: Mars Mystery? -clarification & dilemma
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In article <21258@crg5.UUCP> szabo@crg5.UUCP (Nick Szabo) writes:
>The idea that per-pound launch costs can be _radically_ lowered by
>chemical rockets is nonsense. Space settlement, and perhaps also
>the large-scale industries leading up to it, require such a radical
>lowering of launch costs -- by over a factor of 10.
Here we part company, Nick. I am unconvinced that existing chemical
launchers are anywhere near optimal. The ultimate cost limit, set by
the cost of fuel, is orders of magnitude less than current cost. One
would need a reusable vehicle capable of flying repeatedly with
minimal labor-intensive overhaul between launches (i.e., not the
shuttle), but that is not, in principle, impossible.
Paul F. Dietz
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Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 00:33 CST
From: "In the immortal words of Socrates, 'I drank what?'"
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Subject: FTP site for satellite data
I'm looking for an ftp site for satellite data. I noticed when I was subsribed to this list that there was an ftp site out there. I'm no longer on this list so will you please send you responses directly to me.