--- John Carmack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 03:43 PM 8/5/2004 -0700, you wrote: > >Hi ... > > > >The Canadian da Vinci group unvailed their X Prize > craft in Toronto > >today and announced that they will make their first > of 2 X Prize > >flights Oct 2nd from their launch site in central > Saskatchewan. > > I'm a little irate about the DVP press. The idea > that they are announcing > an X-Prize flight without having made a single > solitary test flight is just > absurd. The "flight testing" that they still talk > about on their web site > was microcosm's testing of systems that DVP was > originally intending to > use, but they aren't even using those any more. I > suppose that they have > an obligation to their sponsors to maximize media > coverage, but it just > strikes me as dishonest.
Indeed. I spoke with one of the reporters hyping DVP up, despite his working for a news organization that's usually cautious about vaporware. He told me that the only reason people like him were reporting about it was the sheer confidence of the da Vinci spokesperson at their press conference. In short, they're True Believers, apparently moreso than even NASA's spokespeople. I'd also question whether they have any obligation to maximize press coverage. Who wants to be assoicated with a public failure? Might not silence be better, given how extremely likely failure is? _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
