<div dir="ltr">Not being a rocket scientist, I guess that makes sense in general, but to John's point, it doesn't seem like a great idea when you are increasing complexity in a system that is somewhat prone to blowing up. <div><br></div><div>In any case, I wish them a lot of success with the launch and am excited about the prospect of a rocket with that much power coming back into the space exploration toolkit.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 2:21 PM, Dan TheBookMan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com" target="_blank">danust2012@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><span class=""><div>On Jan 3, 2018, at 10:51 AM, Dave Sill <<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com" target="_blank">sparge@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 1:35 PM, Dylan Distasio <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:interzone@gmail.com" target="_blank">interzone@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I'm curious, does anyone here know why they took the approach of many smaller engines versus much fewer larger ones?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Scalability?</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br></span><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">That is my guess too.<br><br></span><span class=""><div><div style="line-height:normal"><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> Sample my latest Kindle book "Sand Trap":</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><a href="http://mybook.to/SandTrap" style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" target="_blank">http://mybook.to/SandTrap</a></font></div></div><div style="line-height:normal"><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><div style="line-height:normal"></div></div></div></span></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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