Re: [Vo]:Interview with Michael McKubre

2012-09-01 Thread Harry Veeder
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 10:13 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: I doubt that an economic or structural panacea exists. Of course not. However, to throw your hands up and say that no economic or structural modifications are worth while is

Re: [Vo]:Interview with Michael McKubre

2012-09-01 Thread James Bowery
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: I doubt that an economic or structural panacea exists. Of course not. However, to throw your hands up and say that no economic or structural modifications are worth while is

Re: [Vo]:Interview with Michael McKubre

2012-08-31 Thread James Bowery
Another route McKubre raised was direct political action to get funding earmarked so as to bypass the bureaucratic pecking order. I tried that with R. T. Jones' oblique all wing design and it backfired. What happened was I visited Jones at his home in the hills above Silicon Valley around the

Re: [Vo]:Interview with Michael McKubre

2012-08-31 Thread Jed Rothwell
James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: The next year, when the money was supposed to become available, NASA HQ punished NASA Ames for going over their head (even though it was a grassroots organization chaired by yours truly) by reducing the discretionary budget for NASA Ames by an amount

Re: [Vo]:Interview with Michael McKubre

2012-08-31 Thread James Bowery
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: I am not being cynical. That's the way the world works. Almost all of it. The only reason some corporations deviate from that pattern is because they love money more than politics. That's why I concluded, in 1992 when

Re: [Vo]:Interview with Michael McKubre

2012-08-31 Thread James Bowery
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 4:02 PM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: I am not being cynical. That's the way the world works. Almost all of it. The only reason some corporations deviate from that pattern is because

Re: [Vo]:Interview with Michael McKubre

2012-08-31 Thread Jed Rothwell
James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: That's why I concluded, in 1992 when this all occurred (on top of the problems with NASA basically thumbing their collective noses at the Launch Services Purchase Act of 1990) the only way to attack bureaucratic intransigence in both the private as well

Re: [Vo]:Interview with Michael McKubre

2012-08-31 Thread James Bowery
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: That's why I concluded, in 1992 when this all occurred (on top of the problems with NASA basically thumbing their collective noses at the Launch Services Purchase Act of 1990)

Re: [Vo]:Interview with Michael McKubre

2012-08-31 Thread Jed Rothwell
James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: I doubt that an economic or structural panacea exists. Of course not. However, to throw your hands up and say that no economic or structural modifications are worth while is a bit too defeatist for my taste. Not true. I favor incremental changes. A

Re: [Vo]:Interview with Michael McKubre

2012-08-30 Thread James Bowery
http://media.podshow.com/media/1049/episodes/318736/pesn-318736-08-29-2012.mp3 Is a dead link. Moreover, the link you provided was in error syntactically: http://m.podshow.com/media/1049/episodes/318736/pesn-318736-08-29-2012.mp3Interview On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Axil Axil

Re: [Vo]:Interview with Michael McKubre

2012-08-30 Thread James Bowery
This link to the audio works: http://www.mevio.com/episode/318736/fen.120828 On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: http://m.podshow.com/media/1049/episodes/318736/pesn-318736-08-29-2012.mp3Interview Listen On August 28, Sterling Allan conducted an interview

Re: [Vo]:Interview with Michael McKubre

2012-08-30 Thread James Bowery
At about 10 minutes into the interview, the question that is most relevant crops up, which is how can one overcome the block on scientific publication. This is most relevant because it gets to the heart science itself, and the institutional incompetence currently besetting science. Yes, I think