I'm indebted to those that posted here, and heartily, if tearfully, thank them. That made my day.

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Now, can we do something about the Canadian government? I know they're supposed to "serve" us, but look at the track record. Our politicians have only twenty digits. Ancient MIT devices parsing primes could do better back in the eighties. Please, please! Send up an Obama replacement for our "server," and we won't nuke it!

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After your President leaves today, of course... :-)

Two words: resale value.

I've always been a big Robert Heinlein fan, and the character of D.D. Harriman was particularly fun to imagine.

With this, it looks like Bob's vision of commercial space flight is finally starting to stretch to the plateau that he saw. I'm more than excited: maybe this means that that elusive space elevator is possible too? Oh, not by the same people, but hey! Maybe that's the next step.

In any case, kudos to the two companies. Thanks for seeing Mr. Heinlein's vision come true.