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From: dave@viper.Lynx.MN.Org (David Messer)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Soviet shuttle
Message-ID: <1487@viper.Lynx.MN.Org>
Date: 9 Oct 88 14:13:45 GMT
References: <1988Oct1.224801.11041@utzoo.uucp> <1109@cfa237.cfa250.harvard.edu> <216@obie.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@viper.Lynx.MN.Org (David Messer)
Organization: Lynx Data Systems, Eagan, MN
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In article <216@obie.UUCP> wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) writes:
 >In article <1109@cfa237.cfa250.harvard.edu>, mcdowell@cfa250.harvard.edu (Jonathan McDowell) writes:
 >(about the Soviet Space Shuttlsky)
 >> Aw, c'mon, Henry... I refuse to believe that engineering optimization 
 >> forces you to be THAT close in size and shape.
 >
 >Oh?  Go line up a Mazda RX-7, a Toyota Celica, and a Porsche 944.  Are
 >they all copying each other, or just doing what the wind tunnel told
 >them to do?

They are all copying each other.

(Marketing forces are much greater than aerodynamic forces.)
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