re i want that billion in article c u ikc zoo toronto edu henry zoo toronto edu henry spencer writes c mon allen is telling us how cheap we can get improved this or that sure you can get a heavylift launcher fairly cheap if you do it privately rather than as a gummint project but we re still talking about something that will cost nine digits per launch unless you can guarantee a large market to justify volume production let s make a deal if you re going to put up a billion i d want to budget the whole sheebang for million if i have that much money to throw around in the first place you betcha i m going to sign a contract committing to volume production software engineering that s like military intelligence isn t it sysmgr cadlab eng umd edu
