Not classes, just buying books, self-study and coding.

“Not now and not for a very long time- if at all.”

Just out of curiosity, why should anyone believe you?

Are you an aerospace engineer like Rand? Do you take aerospace engineering classes like Martijn?

Are you an expert in the field of hydrogen storage?

Other than “because”, can you explain any of the things you assert?

What do you mean none of it exists? All of it exists in some form. Hypergolic propellant transfer, cryogenic upper stages, small spacecraft with SEP, capsules. It is absolutely feasible and it could be a couple of years away if the right decisions were made. This could have been done at any point in the past thirty years. It really is that simple.

The RLVs would be safely off the critical path, yet they would get earlier and more effective funding than under any other plan I’ve seen.

Liquid Hydrogen is not storable in space. Not now and not for a very long time- if at all.

Unqualified, this is a stupid statement as Rand rightfully points out. But as I sketched above and as I’ve explained to you several times neither exploration nor commercial development of space depends on it. The strategic decisions necessary for both commercial development of space and exploration in the near future can be made using only proven technologies. The rest is gravy and can be safely left to the market.

What a stupid statement.

Quite simple to make up. None of it exists and there is not even a proof of concept project in the works. Decades away and probably not feasible.
Liquid Hydrogen is not storable in space. Not now and not for a very long time- if at all.

DOD

The people at the Pentagon will be very surprised to hear that they have a budget for your nutty fantasies.

DOD

“Where is the funds for the technology that needs to be developed?”

Tech is already available.

“The ISS is being used to figure out the solutions for the problems we already know about,”

The ISS is the Private Space cash cow. It the only destination the hobby rocket MAY be able to reach. You are so transparent.

“You have an agenda that does not support progress.”

No, I think it is you that has an agenda that is unsupportable.

Where are the funds for your grand plans? Where is the funds for the technology that needs to be developed? Which decade are you planning to do this in?

The ISS is being used to figure out the solutions for the problems we already know about, and to find out what else we need to live and work in space. The scientific community backs it, as the does the astronaut corp, and of course Congress is continuing to fund it.

You seem to be in the minority. And of course, your plans lack the massive amount of funding that they will require, so you’re not going anywhere soon, especially when NASA’s budget is getting cut by 10%.

30 years flying in endless circles is enough. Time to leave. You have an agenda that does not support progress. Do not imagine the people reading this do not understand what you are doing.

The ISS is an incredibly expensive pile of junk going around in endless circles. There is nothing in LEO. Nothing. We have learned all we need and now it is time to go BEO.

Learned all we need? Wow. To paraphrase Pauli: You’re not just not right, you’re not even wrong.

Not only are we not even close to learning all we need, we barely understand what it actually is we need to learn. Welcome to the wonderful world of science.