Re: Apollo/Saturn drawings

lexcorp_at_ix.netcom.com
Date: 02/18/05 

Date: 18 Feb 2005 07:03:11 -0800

Herb Schaltegger wrote:
> In article <lYlRd.8115$B12.2657@news02.roc.ny>,
> Scott Lowther <scottlowther@ix.netcom.SPAMBLOK.com> wrote:
>
> > The topic at hand was was: "Wouldn't it be great if someone could
put
> > all this stuff on the net," to which I pointed out - correctly -
that
> > someone doing so stood a good chance of being sued. You pop up, and

> > demonstrate that your choice of response to situations you don't
like...
> > is to sue somebody.
>
> No, Scott - the topic to which *I* responded was how to go about
> getting to government to follow legal provisions it is obligated to
> follow, in the face of institutional and bureaucratic foot-dragging.

Uh-huh. And how do you sue somebody to find something that may not
exist? Who do I sue to obtain documents from the Lockheed, Northrop,
North American archives? Documents and archives that have been disposed
of to prevent frivolous lawsuits?

> And it isn't "my choice of response to situations I don't like" -
it's
> how our governmental system works.

And that's the sad thing. Don't like something? Sue somebody.

> > The reason why so much of aerospace history has been lost is
*because*
> > of the fear of lawsuits.I may not like the idea of trashing an
archive
> > to prevent a lawsuit based on some 30-year-old test report, but I
can
> > understand the rationale.
>
> And as has been explained to you, bull***.

Incorrect. These archives have been trashed to reduce the likelyhood of
them being used by lawyers to bleed the companies dry.