On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Onno Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Onno Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: >> > David replied to me: >> >> At seven cents the pound to get into orbit, all sorts of things become >> >> possible to ship. Fresh fruit, for instance. Or it would make sense >> >> to use it for long-distance shipping on the planet's surface. >> > >> > Unless surface shipping (mag-lev?) is even cheaper. >> >> Might be cheaper. Sure won't be faster. > > So there can be variety in transportation - maglevs for > bulk cargo, fast suborbital shuttles for passengers and > express cargo, slower shuttles to carry bulk cargo into > orbit, and fast orbital passenger shuttles. > > For the water world, I have a catamaran, an ekranoplan, > and ducted fan lifters, each able to fill a different > market segment.
I always liked the idea of a sealed maglev train in a vacuum tube, very fast, very efficient. -- Douglas E Knapp Why do we live? _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
