Strategic Defense Initiative funding

President Bush is increasing the funding for SDI in the current budget
cycle, and I wonder why I was expelled from graduate school at the
University of Texas at Austin recently, when my research was on the
same ballistic targeting problem they have been having so much trouble
with for the missile defense system. I had passed all the courses for
a Ph.D in orbital mechanics, passed my written qualifying exams, and
had completed most of my research. I was a semester away from getting
my doctorate, and they expelled me ~ with malice, I dare say.

UT Austin's Aerospace Engineering Department is one of the major space
research groups, especially with the Center for Space Research on
campus. You would think they would be very intrested in my research,
which also had applications for the Mars missions. (Actually, it was
an optimization of the Earth to Mars trajectory, which fundamentally
is the same as the Earth based missile trajectory problem, all you do
is change a couple of constants in the code.)

It really makes me wonder if this SDI funding will have the same
outcome as President Reagan's "Star Wars" project that spent $1
trillion and accomplished absolutely nothing.

You can find details on my research on my web page at the publications
link.

Bill Clark
http://home.austin.rr.com/whcii/

Bill,
with respect,
1. The political motives of George Bush, are truly a U.S. political
subject and thus inappropriate here.
2. Your personal academic setback is a problem only you can deal with.
The fact that you have posted about this in the past suggests that you
have not dealt with it.

This may sound harsh but you will only damage yourself by bitching about
setbacks. The only way forward is to accept responsibility for what has
happened, put it to one side, and take a new path.

This is, of course, harder to do than to say, but self-respect is the
prize if you succeed.
This is not free advice. It may cost you if you act on it.

Denis
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