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They either won't reach orbit either, or they will be drastically different craft, not based on the SpaceShipTwo at all.

So? The Wright brothers weren't trying to achieve that. They had plenty of much more reasonable goals to achieve instead.

And, you know, we've been going to space for over half a century. We're not exactly at the Wright brothers state of experimentation any more. If you built a Wright flyer today, you wouldn't go around saying "Yes but think how much we can learn from it!"

Well aren't you a pleasant person.

What.

We took those first steps over half a century ago. If you'r building a Wright Flyer TODAY, you're not going to be learning much, are you?

"By my logic" nothing. What I am actually saying that if we had jets crossing the Atlantic already, then yes, Lindbergh's flight would be just for thrills and we wouldn't learn a damn thing from it.

It does not, at all. It's not like we're struggling to reach space now. We have spacecraft. We know how to make them. We're working on making them better. They are not novel, and they are not waiting to be discovered by random chance.

The SpaceCraftTwo has very little bearing on any of that work. It's a design that can't reach orbit, no matter how hard you try. There are much more fruitful avenues to pursue if you want to improve spaceflight.

And never. That design just can not reach orbit, no matter how hard you try.

No, it is not. It is a dead end.

And, we already have space travel, in case you missed it. We also have companies actually working on making it more affordable and convenient. SpaceCraftTwo does nothing for that.

Can, maybe. But if you're actually trying to make another kind of craft, you should be experimenting on that, not a completely different kind and hoping that maybe by chance you'll find something useful.

And Ariane rockets are a completely different thing than SpaceShipTwo. Ariane rockets are the Titanic, SpaceShipTwo is a roller coaster.

But it doesn't. The SpaceShipTwo will never reach orbit. It can not possibly do this, it's designed for a completely different purpose.

Sure. But the SpaceShipTwo can't do that. It's not designed for that. It won't get developed into that.

The underlying technologies of the SpaceCraftTwo are completely and woefully underdimensioned for actually reaching orbit. It's just not feasible to develop it into a craft that can do that. You need a completely different solution to do it.

But the SpaceShipTwo can't be developed into doing orbital flights. It's a completely different kind of craft.