"Grimly Curmudgeon" wrote in message
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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Julian" saying
something like:

I guess the Prius is simple, just like the space shuttle. Take two tanks,
fill one with liquid hydrogen and t'other with liquid oxygen, two pumps to
push the liquids into some giant upturned plantpots, a few sparks and
whooosh!!! into orbit and circling the earth. So simple really, no
complication whatsoever :-)

Just what Von Braun said.

Rockets are simple.. they only used them for a few minutes out of the three
days it took to get to and from the moon.
Keeping the crew occupied was the hard part.