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[PierreB]

@Windy_Skies

On topic thesis: Rutan’s solution to landing on rough surfaces is good, and here’s why. On topic antithesis: Rutan solution to landing on rough surfaces is bad, and here’s why.

This is only an example of similarity/dis-similarity, the full topic being not “Rutan’s solution to landing on rough surfaces is good, and here’s why” but Burt Rutan talking about designing his SkiGull seaplane.
And on PSA: a seaplane is probably not a viable AWES as dis-similarity (antithesis) Dave mentions Rutan’s seaplane features:

@kitefreak

Rutan’s seaplane is completely unsuited as a WECS kite due to its high-capital cost, high stall-speed, low unit-power, high-mass, high wing-loading, IC engine, passenger systems, and so on.

So he wrote about Rutan’s seaplane which is the heart of the topic. So this is on-topic.