Also throw in the fact that SpaceX is NOT incorporating reusability into their price points (from what I have seen, the boosters are designed to be recoverable but the cost structure isn't built around that being an expectation for each launch)...and now all of a sudden the price point becomes lower. Musk said recently the propellent costs for a Falcon 9 launch were around $150k. If he can get a 50% reuse rate of of his boosters, that's a hell of a cost savings AND drives the cost to orbit down much lower.

When SpaceX and Bigelow meet in orbit, that will be an important date in spaceflight. Two wholly private ventures meeting in orbit. Now if someone could just throw enough coin at both of them to undertake a Mars mission...

Have to wonder since most airports are local/state owned entities, could the TSA legally pull it's shenanigans on flights that originate and terminate within Texas? /yes, of course they will //but isn't the crux of the DOJ's argument around Interstate Commerce?

Isn't "Deep Space" supposed to be outside the influence of the Earth's Gravitational Field? Because three weeks of spaceflight probably won't get you there unless someone has packed a VASIMR engine and a nuke power plant inside of the Lego set NASA is calling a deep space vehicle.

This seems appropriate... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwyCcGse8WE /not the stupid commercial before it...

#1. Some Anthroprogenic Global Warming believers (scientists, media, and nut jobs) think the seas are going to rise, there will be widespread famine, pestilence, etc. #2. Some Anti Global Warming believers (scientists, media, and nut jobs) think the seas are NOT going to rise, there will NOT be widespread famine, pestilence, etc. #3. Some of the data from both sides is utter bullshit. #4. Some of it is valid. Activists on both sides tend to draw themselves to the extremes, and like Abortion, Socialism, Capitalism, Racism...the activists believe in the extremes. Don't fall for their bullshit (that's what sell books!).

And the Dell rep must have been his brother in law...

Had a laptop for my BS and MBA, online doing all sorts of crap. Still graduated with a 3.8+ GPA. As always, it depends on the student. I could see how a bunch of teenagers would be easily distracted.

And don't forget what the British Post Office did back in the 1960s as well (which my stepfather was a part of). City of Light is a nice read about the history of Fiber Optics.