I wish you the best of luck in finding employment. But your predicament gave me an idea.
Last year the Perl community ponied up $55k to hire professional perl
hacker Damien Conway:
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/10/15/1724258.shtml
This year the "Open Source Community" ponied up $100k to buy the source
code to the Blender 3D animation software from its defunct company.
http://www.blender3d.com/
I wonder if this kind of thing could work for private space development?
I'd be willing to bet lots of people would be willing to put up some
money to fund someone working full time on getting people to space. Of
course, for us equipment would probably soon outpace the cost of the
person(s) working on it. But nevertheless, a "foundation" for rocket
development, with full-time paid workers might go a long way toward
building things faster. The number of people interested in going to
space is a lot larger than the number of people that care about
Blender...
Does one already exist?
Cheers,
-- Bob
Bob McElrath ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, Department of Physics
"The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from
these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in
blood for centuries." -- James Madison
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