[extropy-chat] Re: SPACE: where are we?

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Russell Evermore <nanowave at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Getting back to Robert Bradbury's original puzzlement over why
> Nasa/JPL
> seems a little stingy with the goods. Honestly guys, I can't believe
> you're
> having difficulty with this one. Think meta-perspective and you will
> soon begin to see how the pieces fit together.

Russell has a point here. I've always wondered why there are not freely
available government specs on "How to build an orbital rocket" or "How
to build a space capsule", laying out a lot of design requirements:
what capsule wall thickness is required for a given atmospheric
pressure, how much shielding against radiation and/or micrometeorites,
how much reentry shielding, etc. If that information were freely
available, then you'd have backyard tinkerers putting together
rocketships all over the country.

This result is something the PTB definitely do NOT want. Aside from the
monopoly of NASA and the oligopoly of the big aerospace companies,
you'd have to worry about rocketships falling out of the sky all over
the country, gawd knows what lives where they intend to impact rather
loudly. 

You'd also have lots of ballistic launches. What would the neighbors
think? Especially the neighbors who are career paranoiacs with their
fingers on the trigger of a fleet of ICBMs and who do not comprehend
our individualistic culture. They'd be looking at their radar screens
every day, having a nervous breakdown over whether Bubba's Backyard
Rocket is the Running Dog Amerikans launching the Big One at them...

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Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
                                       - Gen. John Stark
"Fascists are objectively pro-pacifist..."
                                       - Mike Lorrey
Do not label me, I am an ism of one...
Sado-Mikeyism: http://mikeysoft.zblogger.com

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