Do you think rockets ready to launch on a moments notice can sit in silos for 50 years without maintenance? They go into orbit. Just like those that put satellites in orbit. With similar sized payloads. It takes days of planning to just put up one payload. Yet we can sends thousands of them on a moments notice with the turn of a key? Even as a child in the 70's, this never made sense to me.

We can do this, several thousand times, in a ten minute window, with no crew, or pre-flight buildup.

Does that sound even remotely believable?

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Do you think rockets ready to launch on a moments notice can sit in silos for 50 years without maintenance? They go into orbit. Just like those that put satellites in orbit. With similar sized payloads. It takes days of planning to just put up one payload. Yet we can sends thousands of them on a moments notice with the turn of a key? Even as a child in the 70's, this never made sense to me.

We can do this, several thousand times, in a ten minute window, with no crew, or pre-flight buildup.

Does that sound even remotely believable?