[NTLK] o/t blacksmithing

[Neal Sofge]

> Dare I say, that when they scrapped the
> remaining Saturn V rockets, they also scrapped any chance of
> heavy-lift technology that might one day save us from a cosmic
> disaster.

If you think of the Shuttle as payload (after all, it does go into
orbit) then the system we've got right now is in the same super-heavy
lift class as a Saturn V.  Of course, we'll only have it for a few
more months, but at least we didn't toss all the technology.  Just the
engineering...