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Robert Fortner
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Robert Fortner is a Seattle writer who once worked at Microsoft. He is writing a book about the research endeavors of Bill Gates and Paul Allen. You can reach him at robertfortner@yahoo.com.
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Posted Mon, Aug 4, 11:50 a.m.
RE: Cheap fuel and cheap shots: Would the Space Shuttle need a $50 million external tank if there were an alternative to chemical rocket technology? The point I am making is not one I invented. See, for example, Thinking Clearly About Space where Monte Davis writes: "Bottom line: with chemical ...
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RE: After Gates re-invents science, maybe he can stop climate change.: I think science is working, much as it has for a long time: by scrapping, hard-fought, incremental progress punctuated by occasional breakthrough. Gates would like to push science past the grind it's been for the last century into more ...
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