

Dragon arrived at the orbiting station early Wednesday morning












Sources:, Reuters

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RE: So it begins!
By Ringold on 10/10/2012 9:32:43 PM , Rating: 1
Your the rabid capitalist, you tell me why larger (and thus by capitalist definition, more efficient) companies cannot reduce their costs below a smaller competitor.

As a "rabid capitalist", I'd say there is nothing capitalist about the incestuous relationship between Lockheed, Boeing and the US government. The fact that they haven't been able to translate economies of scale proves that they're not responding to any competitive pressure, and the reason why is clear; they didn't feel like they needed to. Only capitalist firms compete. Lockheed, Boeing, they are just what a "rabid capitalist" (also known as "economists") would call rent seekers.

Yep. A flight that cannot orbit the earth at least once is of no interest to me. Get back to me when the others have got beyond "study" stages - their business plans are not credible.

Biggalow is well past the "study" stages; again, he has, last I heard, two station modules inflated and in orbit.

The lagrangian point station is not going to go to the lunar surface -

He figures something similar; it'd be easiest to assemble the station there, and then nudge it out to land it on the lunar surface, in a prepared location, where it can then be partially buried.

Maybe some of the issue is you're just not following some of these companies advancements close enough. Some of them I think have more meat on the bones then you'd come to realize.

