Re: "The Future of Human Spaceflight"

On 11 Jan, 20:52, Fred J. McCall <fjmcc...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

:Google is one of the more successfult companies.
:

Note that Google is run by ONE board of directors.

Google does indeed have one board, but :-

1) Anyone whatever their citizenship can join the Google board.

2) ESA likewise has a single board.

:>
:> For example, it probably would have been a much better station if they
:> had shitcanned the original design when the price kept going up and
:> the capabilities kept going down and had listened to Lowell Wood's
:> ideas.
:>
:I googled him and his ideas. I think you are doing a certain amount of
:special pleading here. How do you know that his ideas for (say) Mars
:would not also go up and up in price.
:

I was referring specifically to his ideas about how to 'fix' the ISS
program back before they bent the first piece of metal.

I can't help stating the truism that history is what has hapenned
rather tan what might have hapenned. It may well be that there is some
genius that if he/she had been listened to would have produced a far
better ISS far cheaper, but there is absolutely no proof of this. The
ISS is the result of a series of decisions.

In fact the long and short of it is that the ISS lacks a role.
Scientific experimentation is done with dedicated unmanned spacecraft.
This has been found to be far and away the cheapest solution. I have
pointed out that a fragmented telescope in free space is a better bet
than one on the Moon. I fear too that if, and it is a big if a Moojn
base is established in 2020 it will be a similar white elephant.

Had a real genius been around when the ISS was though of he/she would,
without question, have said that the thing to do was to develop
repairable spacecraft and swarms and also concentrate on smart pebbles
and ultrastability. OK this is again what if, but these are the
technologies with a real medium term future.

History has is fact passed the ISS by.


- Ian Parker
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