The reusable launch vehicle that whose prototype was 85% assembled with 96% of the parts and the launch facility 100%? Only to be cancelled in 2001? Yeah, me neither. Oh, and it's all still there and Lockheed is still working on similar airframe prototypes, even going as far as successfuly testing 1/5th scale updated models? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-33 Why are we spending all of this money on Ares when it is riddled with problems like...say...shaking the astronauts to death on launch? Ares is a joke. If anything, we should just dig-up the Saturn V plans, take the best from it, and then build a craft that has 2009 technologies in it instead of reinventing the wheel. The whole idea of saving money by using the Shuttle SRBs has been completely negated by the fact that the ship built on that concept is a complete clusterfuck and is costing more than if we had just started over from scratch.

Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions. Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical"? Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff. Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly. Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes... Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave! Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria! But really. The Internet isn't a damn packet radio network. Transmission errors are largely a thing that has been taken care of via providers putting infrastructure in place to make retransmits unnecessary. In fact, BitTorrent over UDP shuld sould like a good thing to Service Providers....unless they are over-subscribed kinda like this whole subprime thing. Wait. Comcast...node...saturation....no wonder they're spreading fire-and-brimstone FUD. They HATE spending money. On the other-hand, we have hashing. So if the connection is adequate, then ISPs shuld praise this sort of thing for lowering their network overhead.