Actually, I think that nuclear rockets, and interplanetary research are what government organisations like NASA should be working on.And it may even happen - the Bush Administration cares less about the opinions of the conservationists than anyone since the Hayes Administration - but it would still be a government program, would still be expensive, and still wouldn't help *us*.
[I'll probably change my mind when I see what a pigs ear they make of it though ;-), but if they can get it to work, it could be very nice.]
NASA should be working at the space frontier- the space frontier isn't launch any more; it's interplanetary. Companies should be working on launch; sure they'll moan and groan about how they're not ready, but there's no new tech they need to make it work, they need to work on the markets; and NASA certainly can't do that for them. NASA needs to get out of the launch market; and they need something else to go into... NASA isn't going anywhere soon, so it needs to be diverted to where it might do some good.
-R-- "We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." -- Robert Wilensky, UC Berkeley _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
