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In article <ewright.724705324@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
>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.
>
	Umm, so?  Tell me, did you see 3 aircraft landing at the same
time, or flying in formation?  Did you see baggage transferred between
them while in flight?  I'm not talking about on the ground, I'm talking
about in space.  If you recall, my original comment was about in-flight
satellite repair.

>
>>>That's what tankers are for.
>
>>	Again, another craft.
>
>I saw a *lot* of airplanes at DFW.
>
	Ayup.  And the US Air Force is the ONLY one that regularly does
inflight air-refueling.  I haven't seen Delta or Virgin Atlantic do it.
Remember, again, we are talking about in-orbit, not on the ground.

>
>>	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.
>
	No, some people are telling me, DC-1 will do this, do that, and
hey, we can add this, we can add that... it's all going to be easy.
I'ms aying, "sounds good, but prove it."

>
>>	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.
>
	IBID.

>There's a difference between "testing and flying the thing"
>and standing on the sidelines hurling spitballs.
>
	And there's a difference between making snide comments, and
trying to temper enthusiasm with reality.