i want that billion in article c x o p zoo toronto edu henry zoo toronto edu henry spencer writes in article r rn innn mojo eng umd edu sysmgr king eng umd edu writes you d need to launch hlvs to send up large amounts of stuff do you know of a private titan pad you d need to launch hlvs to send up large amounts of stuff if you assume no new launcher development if you assume new launcher development with lower costs as a specific objective then you probably don t want to build something hlv sized anyway nobody who is interested in launching things cheaply will buy titans it doesn t take many titan pricetags to pay for a laser launcher or a large gas gun or a development program for a big dumb booster all of which would have far better cost effectiveness henry i made the assumption that he who gets there firstest with the mostest wins ohhh you want to put in fine print which says thou shall do wonderous r d rather than use off the shelf hardware sorry didn t see that in my copy most of the pournellesque proposals run along the lines of some dollar amount reward for some simple goal you go ahead and do your development i ll buy off the shelf at higher cost or even russian but i also assume that there d be some buy us provos in there and be camped out in the moon while you are launching and assembling little itty bitty payloads in leo with your laser or gas gun and working out the bugs of assembly integration in leo oh hey could i get a couple of canadarms tuned for the lunar environment i wanna do some teleoperated prospecting while i m up there software engineering that s like military intelligence isn t it sysmgr cadlab eng umd edu
