[ExI] new heavy lifter

[Adrian Tymes]

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:11 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
> If they manage to achieve 1000 bucks a pound to LEO, it will be a new day
> for space, and perhaps give us a new take on how we live our lives.  A
> breakthrough of that magnitude would enable vast constellations of
> communications satellites, so that much if not most travel would be
> obviated.  Meeting with colleagues in an office would by an uncompetitive
> thing to do: the opportunity cost of spending half an hour each way in a car
> to get to an office would be far too high.  With far better information
> technology, our needs would be far better met by staying close to our homes.
> Energy would be used far differently from how it is used today.

[etc.]

Most of the examples you list are already quite possible, and in fact have
been tried, with the Internet today.  They simply don't work, for reasons
having nothing to do with the cost of bandwidth.