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I would be the perfect solution but hey, we wouldn't want all of that stuff to fall back onto Earth over a very wide radius because of a loose joint or ceramiac tile.
by Alex in Toulouse on Fri Apr 28th, 2006 at 03:20:29 PM EST
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Or because the rocket was designed using American units and built using English units, or something like that.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Apr 28th, 2006 at 03:25:14 PM EST
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Have to do a complete re-think and re-design of the whole banana.  

How about a Beanstalk to LEO and Ion-Drives on the other side of the Van Allen belt.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Fri Apr 28th, 2006 at 03:38:34 PM EST
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