On 22 Jul 2003 23:23:37 -0700, in a place far, far away,
(George William Herbert) made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

The term 'false economy' jumps to mind. Saving a pound that costs
two thousand dollars to launch at an engineering and fabrication
cost of close to a million dollars (don't laugh, that has happened
before) is a really poor overall tradeoff.

Yes, this "performance uber alles" attitude that many aerospace
engineers seem to have is one of the reasons space hardware is
unnecessarily expensive.

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