[extropy-chat] Re: Are dwarfs better for long duration spaceflight?

[David Lubkin]

I wrote:

 >> He proclaimed that spacecraft *must* be custom-built, and that it
 >> would *never* be possible to mass-produce them. And yes, friends,
 >> he really did mean *never*.

Mike Lorrey replied to Spike:

>And someone like Davids friend

While I have friends who are distinguished astronomers and friends 
who are apparent idiots, this person was not a friend, just someone I 
chatted with once.

>As he is an astronomer, it is understandable that he only pays
>attention to orbiting observatories. You only need one of each type in
>orbit at a time of these sorts, he is right there

We were not talking about observatories in Earth orbit. The context 
was missions like Stardust or Genesis.


-- David Lubkin.