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Old December 20th 03, 02:40 AM
Derek Lyons
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Default Space Program Needs The Right Stuff

h (Rand Simberg) wrote:

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 10:24:21 -0800 (PST), in a place far, far away,
(Derek Lyons) made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

(Rand Simberg) wrote:
Fox: "In avoiding risk, we almost ensure failure." In some ways,
that's the most important message.

And of course, the Langley vs Wright theme (analogy with government
versus private theme) prevailed throughout.


Hyman Rickover may debate you on that. The conspicuous *lack* of
failure in Naval Reactors compared with the well documented
failures[1] of commercial reactors provides an interesting counterpart
to your themes.


Mostly because they were so heavily regulated, they weren't really
commercial, and no innovation was allowed. That was the cost of the
Price-Anderson act.


Mostly because the Price-Anderson act lead to the political failure of
the industry, and has absolutely zero bearing on the operator and
designer failures I noted.

D.

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