Re: How to be immune from budget cuts

On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:39:06 GMT, simberg.interglobal@xxxxxxxxx (Rand
Simberg) wrote:

>On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:24:23 -0400, in a place far, far away, Josh
>Hill <usereplyto@xxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
>such a way as to indicate that:
>
>>>>fund nutty can't work projects like the X-33 (one
>>>>engineer told me that if NASA was ever forced to do something like
>>>>that again he would quit his job),
>>>
>>>Do you really think that NASA was "forced" to give that contract to
>>>Lockmart, or choose their flawed concept?
>>
>>No, but it seems that the staff at NASA didn't believe in /any/ of the
>>SSTO proposals.
>
>They don't now. But that has nothing to do with reducing launch
>costs. They don't seem to think that's possible, either. They're in
>for a shock in the coming years, as they build their new white
>elephants.

I suspect that, at this point, they just want something that works. No
one ever got fired for buying IBM . . .

--
Josh

"This is a devastating storm. This is a storm that's
going to require immediate action now." -George W. Bush,
four days after Hurricane Katrina
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