"He tells me with some bitterness that politics triumphed over all of the objections of the engineering staff to LS and that this is not the first time that this has happened."
That's how we ended up with Challenger and Columbia. On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 6:46 AM, Michael Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > Time-Nutters-- > > Jim wrote: > snip > > That's why the FCC granted a "conditional" waiver > > of the rules. It was politically expedient, and I would > > imagine that the engineers at the FCC thought "there's > > no way they'll be able to demonstrate no interference" > > Charles wrote: > snip > > The Commission not only thought LS would demonstrate > > non-interference, it put its thumb on the scale until the > > public outcry became too loud to ignore (the GPS interests > > took forever to wake up -- that didn't happen until all of > > the comment periods were long closed). It just didn't > > matter what the staff engineers thought -- which is > > business as usual at the FCC. > ------------------------------**------------------------------ > > A friend of mine was one of the FCC lead supervisory engineers > that was involved in the LS fiasco. He tells me that there were > technical reports, evaluation summaries and strong opinions > offered by the engineering staff that provided a number of > reasons why the LS project should be denied. He tells me that > most of these engineering studies got buried and ignored. > He tells me with some bitterness that politics triumphed over > all of the objections of the engineering staff to LS and that this > is not the first time that this has happened. > > Mike Baker > Gainesville, FL USA > > ______________________________**_________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/** > mailman/listinfo/time-nuts<https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts> > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
