On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 12:17:36 -0700, Pierce Nichols
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The way the rules are written it appears to eliminate small businesses
>from the competition, as it bans corporate as well as government
>sponsorship. Corporate organization is sufficiently useful that most
>small businesses and many volunteer organizations (including ours) are
>organized that way. XCOR, for instance, appears to be excluded.
We are; it's restricted to individuals. And they want practical. I
can count on my ears the number of people I know who made significant
progress on hardware working alone. Does practical then mean "able to
write pretty reports?" "Able to collect signatures on a petition to
Congress?" "Able to get NASA to change the name of a vehicle?" Mr.
Heinlein would not be pleased.
-R
--
"SEAL training is just like Ranger training, except
it's three weeks longer. It takes that long to teach
them how to balance the balls on their noses."
-- Doug Jones
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