re: re: re: Start with the fundamentals
I thought about patenting the idea, but decided I wouldn't. Instead I decided that since the reason I had come up with the idea was to lower the costs of getting into space, that I would publicly disclose it. The supposed reason for patent laws is to encourage inventors to disclose their idea for public benefit. I didn't need this kind of "encouragement". Seeing it successfully made and used would be a wonderful reward.