Dear Jim, on 2002-11-14 03.08, Jim Elwell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
<snip> > "Another area for experimental economics has to do with NASA. We worked on the > Cassini mission [which in 1997 sent 800 pounds of scientific instruments on a > small spacecraft to Saturn to conduct experiments]. We used a trading system > to allocate the resources that each separate experiment got to use on board. <snip> I know that this is a complete red herring but it is interesting that NASA chose to report the mass of the scientific experiments as "800 pounds". How long is it going to take for NASA to realise the cost of the Mars Climate Orbiter? Cheers, Pat Naughtin CAMS Geelong, Australia
