Chris Hall, an old friend of mine, who now teaches spacecraft design at Virginia Tech, posted a reply to my post in his own blog, which then got some interesting replies that I also think are worth reading. For anyone who'd like to check it out, please go to:

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Update: Whoops, sorry, the original URL I posted was incorrect, since I linked to the comments but not to his original post. The complete thread can be seen here:

http://www.aoe.vt.edu/~cdhall/Space/archives/001276.html

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