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  • #61
    Originally posted by DanS
    That startup, run by a handful of volunteers, is one of the most competent organizations out there, believe it or not.
    They may be competent, but not in the necessary areas.
    (\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
    (='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
    (")_(") "Starting the fire from within."

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      That goes both ways. The government (or at least our version of it; the Russians have a better system in this regard) is not competent to operate in space in a way that doesn't involve the expenditure of hundreds of billions of dollars on a schedule measured in decades. NASA knows its competencies, and plans its budgets and schedule accordingly.

      The startup has competency in doing things cheaply and routinely. We don't know when/if the startups will hit critical mass, but, if successful, the startup way is the preferable path.
      Last edited by DanS; March 3, 2006, 13:57.
      I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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