[ExI] shining example and COVID-19

[Dan TheBookMan]

Any archives for that (SSTO)? Thanks for elaborating on this.

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Dan
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> On Mar 25, 2020, at 1:01 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote: 
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> I do miss the focused subgroups.  Those things were so intense and worthwhile in their way.  We had them on single-state-to-orbit, guns, openness vs privacy, lots of math ones including one that I think led to BlockChain and BitCoin.
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> >…Single stage?
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> Dan 
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> {8^D
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> Ja, single STAGE to orbit, sheesh, my fat fingers.
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> We had a good SSTO group going for a while back in the days when that was still a real possibility.  I was in the school of thought which held (and still hold) that anything you can do with one stage can be done better with two.
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> We were doing actual calculations in those days, lotta smart aerospace guys joining, some who weren’t ever part of ExI-chat, proposing designs and such. 
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> Fully-recoverable two-stage is a good solution to a very difficult problem.  Keith might have other thoughts, as I vaguely recall he was in on the chatter back in those days.  I was more active on that one than any of the others, and it was mostly before I did much of anything on ExI.
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> In retrospect… I don’t even know if that group started out on ExI.  It might have pre-dated this list and just had a lot of ExI guys on it.  Eh, memories from over 25 yrs ago are not reliable.
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> Keith do you remember an email group with about 30-40 guys kicking around SSTO ideas?  Who were the others?  It was in about early 90s, and I still have my handwritten notebooks from those days, somewhere.  I don’t know where they are, but I know I didn’t throw them out.
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> spike
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