It's okay Tom this is a roller-coaster type thread.

Particularly with the possibility that the results of the paper are incorrect.
But what IS EXCITING is that SpaceX launched and orbited a craft yesterday!
http://www.informationweek.com/news/...SSfeed_IWK_All
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/12...orbital-doors/
The relevance to this thread is that it was launched from the Nasa facility in FL.