Comment Re:Ridiculous (Score 1) 139
The point is that Boeing has nothing but mockups, powerpoints, and disastrous wind tunnel tests, so Sierra Nevada doesn't have to do much to have more technical merit.
When it comes to the most important part of it's flight regime, all Sierra Nevada has is "mockups, powerpoints, and wind tunnel tests". Worse yet, that regime is actually an area in which we have very little actual experience (essentially limited to Space Shuttle re-entries).
But go ahead and keep pretending that Boeing won based on the "technical merit" of a less tested, less developed, less capable, and more expensive system.
"Less tested and lest developed" is a relative matter... Boeing has a "less tested and less developed" craft that operates in a (relatively) simple and well understood flight regime. Sierra Nevada has an all but completely untested and undeveloped craft that operates in an extremely complex and little understood flight regime. Their flight tests to date, all low altitude ad subsonic, have nowhere approached the regime where the questions reside, not even close.
That you have to have this pointed out to you *twice*... well, further proof that you're a clueless fool.