From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Thu Apr 03 2003 - 17:17:47 MST
--- "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com> wrote:
> I can't believe that this URL:
>
> XCOR Successfully Tests New Engine
>
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/rocketscience-03o.html
>
> published April 1st (unless it is some kind of hoax)
> didn't make it onto the ExI list for 2 days.
Meh. It's great news - but perhaps the better news is
that this *isn't* news, not really. It's a new event,
but they've had enough successes that XCOR's ascent is
starting to become kind of like Microsoft's security
failures, only in a good way: significant, yet common
and continual enough that each specific breakthrough
is part of what's expected. That condition, itself,
speaks volumes to what's happening.
> We are talking "rocket science" here -- other than
> lifespan extending technologies or teleportation I
> can't think of of things much more extropic.
Well, I can think of a few things that might be "more
extropic", but you're right that this is definitely on
topic.
On a related note, a paper I co-authored is going to
be presented at the National Space Society's upcoming
conference. They gave the goahead for public
distribution ahead of the conference, so I figured
there might be a few people here interested.
http://www.erps.org/ISDC-2003/FAST.html
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