On 7 Oct 2002, at 10:55, Stewart Cobb wrote:
> The Sunday morning program on (American) National Public Radio
> had an interview with Elizabeth Weil, who has just written a
> book on Rotary Rocket. The book is: They All Laughed at
> Christopher Columbus: An Incurable Dreamer Builds the First
> Civilian Spaceship (Bantam; ISBN: 0553108867).
>
> The interview is available from the NPR web site at:
>
> http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/segment_display.cfm?segID=151199
>
> Someone smarter than me may be able to actually download the
> audio file and save it for posterity; all I can manage to do
> is play it through RealAudio.
>
> By coincidence I had bought this book (at Borders) on Friday.
> I'm halfway through it. The basic theme is that Gary Hudson,
> all the people around him, and all the people who share his
> dreams (such as the attendees of Space Access '98, where she
> was taking notes) are just little boys who refuse to grow up.
> Her superior attitude is irritating, as are the many factual
> errors.
>
> Cheers!
> --Stu
>
I heard the interview, and formed the impression that Ms. Weil was
looking for some sort of expose', and was disappointed that she hadn't
found one -- but couldn't say so.
As for her looking at people who dream of space as childish, that's a
common failing. I recall the same thing happened to David Thompson,
president of Orbital Sciences, in a WSJ interview, and it delayed Orbital's
IPO by a couple of weeks.
I'll probably have something to say about this on my Web site.
Chris
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