Adrian Tymes wrote: > > --- 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.
Didn't airplane flight endure the same sort of scepticism (fueled by the varying results of numerous more-or-less-well- prepared efforts) in the early years? -dave w _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
