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In article <1992Dec27.203327.21241@iti.org> aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer) writes:
>In article <1992Dec27.164247.20711@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:
>
>>And to think, it was only last year that Pegasus was the net's darling
>>that was going to bring the cost of space travel down to nil.
>
>I think you will be very hard pressed to find anybody who thought
>Pegasus was going to bring the cost of space travel to nil. That wasn't
>its goal.
>
>>bandwagons are not only crowded, they also seem to be short lived. It's
>>funny that the flaws only show up when something actually flies.
>
>We may all be thankful that the people at OSC are willing to try things
>to see if they will work. Left to you, nobody would ever try anything
>since everything which doesn't exist today, in your view, can't be done
>and won't work. Progress is never made by pesismist.

You misrepresent my position. All I'm saying is that new systems are
rarely as cheap and easy in metal as they are on paper. That's what
research and development programs are designed to discover. Only a few 
things that pass through development ever reach mass production as
cheap and troublefree as they were on paper.

Gary

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