🚀 go-pugleaf

In <pgm2hxr@rpi.edu> strider@clotho.acm.rpi.edu (Greg Moore) writes:

>	Gee, thanks for the snide answer.  Now, my original point was
>on rendezvous and repair.  So, now we have to get 3 objects in close
>proximity to each other.  You've just made the problem at least 50%
>tougher.  And now you have to transfer between craft.  More 
>difficuly.

Last time I flew back into DFW, I saw more than three planes on
the ground, in close proximity to one another.  I saw people and
baggage being transferred between flights.   Looks do-able.


>>That's what tankers are for.

>	Again, another craft.

I saw a *lot* of airplanes at DFW.


>	Hint, they are flying.  You are talking about a paper=airplane
>and saying it will do all this and more.  I'm saying, build it, fly it,
>and see what happens.

I thought that was what we were doing.


>	Right, that works fine once you've built your power-plant
>on the moon.  I'm talking at first.  It seems to me that someone
>here is forgetting the middle step of testing and flying the thing.

See above.

There's a difference between "testing and flying the thing"
and standing on the sidelines hurling spitballs.