see, and this is where i know that the argument has hit a brick wall. of doom.
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but that's not it's reason for being. The thing is, reason for being doesn't really matter in this point. Essentially the Saturn V is a complicated machine for burning things in a very controlled fashion.
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Let's parse what you're saying.
To state: "Essentially the Saturn V is a complicated machine for burning things in a very controlled fashion," you have to omit *vast* amount of information to the point of extreme distortion. It's purpose for being is surely known, one of the most memorable speeches ever recorded commissioned it's flight.
"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept..."
Full text and audio, at
http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/ricetalk.htm
Okay. So you had to cut that out, and claim that it's irrelevant. But in the human experience...what mattered about at Saturn V? That it burned things? Ask anyone who can remember July 20th 1969. They will not tell you about an expensive barbaque.
Look...it's an analogy...if you don't want to get it...fine. Say its a costly matchstick. But honestly? That's a pretty silly answer, and i'd guess you know that.