--- Michael Wallis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The decision is > his to make, no matter how crazy *I* thing the > decision is.
This is very true, but it results in a problem that irritates many people trying to secure funding for serious space development (as opposed to pie-in-the-sky and/or mega-contractor-trough efforts that few professionals honestly expect to suceed). Highly publicized failures from this sort of effort reinforce the public image that this sort of effort can not work, thus people are less willing to fund those who do this sort of effort in ways that can work. (Like, oh, say, ERPS. Or Armadillo Aerospace, if Mr. Carmack wants any investors. Or XCOR. Or...) It would be less of a problem if the public were a lot more aware of the benefits of incremental development. Then again, if they were, da Vinci probably couldn't have gotten enough coverage to encourage them to try for a launch date in the first place. _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
