On 30 October 2014 15:31, <dr.kl...@gmx.at> wrote: > Greed is a bitch - when your word view is utilitaristic you'll never make it > to Mars.
I went to a presentation on Skylon at WorldCon. The most striking image was this: http://www.bisbos.com/images_rel/obs_1_800.jpg An orbital assembly station for a Mars craft. Classic science-fiction, except that there is only one think in that picture that we don't already know how to do, and that's the engines on the space plane. And they have already trialed the hard parts. http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/sabre_howworks.html -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users