On Tue, 2 Jan 1996, Mark Grant, M.A. (Oxon) wrote:
About ten years ago a group I was involved with were thinking about putting something into space as a publicity stunt. One company we talked to claimed they could put 1 kg into orbit on one of their sounding rockets for about $ 30,000 (that's a 1 kg satellite, not $ 30,000 per kg). How
Hey! I've just had an epiphany. HOToL promised much cheaper costs to put things in LEO. The initial design was finished and tested, but nobody would provide the funds for the second round or implementation (probably because it wasn't French enough :) Nowdays, anything involving the Internet automatically gets ridiculous levels of funding. If we can just get John Markoff or Walter Mossberg to declare HOTol to be an Internet Technology they'll be able to use banknotes as heat shields. Simon Spero, BSc. Eng, ACGI {Ok, this whole thread is noise - I'm up to my eyeballs doing PKCS in java, and I canna take no more :)}