On 28 March 2011 12:26, DMcD <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Technocrats frequently have a problem with imagination. They can
> imagine technology of breathtaking scope and complexity but don't
> quite have the mental capacity to solve the all the problems. The
> space shuttle was possibly the most complex machine created by humans
> and only two crashed. But crash they did. Save me from nuclear power!
>
One viewpoint is the problems with the shuttle were mainly political, not
because of the technology.
http://www.idlewords.com/2005/08/a_rocket_to_nowhere.htm is an interesting
read.

Al



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