On Apr 13, 2:13 pm, (Rand Simberg)
wrote:
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:08:21 GMT, in a place far, far away,
(Derek Lyons) made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

There have been many powerpoints projecting starting points lower than
anything the goverment can do. Note how many have actually borne
fruit.

It roughly correlates with the number that have been actually funded.
As I've noted in the past, the only thing at which the government has
actually excelled is getting its hands on billions of dollars for this
stuff.

....that it then gives to contractors to make it happen. Do you think
that NASA and the AF wouldn't rather give KR or SpaceX a fraction of
what they give Boeing or LM for the same thing?