shuttle replacement

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obviously fred never looked at the travel budget........

lots of travel between houston and KSC. That is lost work days.


Cite?

Bob is seriously in his own little world. Companies routinely spread
their people around the world and simultaneously limit travel (which
would negate the "savings" of spreading your teams all over the planet).

Bob keeps forgetting about this wonderful thing called the Internet
which lets people communicate more efficiently. Well that and
telephones. A day doesn't go by in our office here without literally
thousands of emails and dozens of phone calls between the US, Canada,
India, China, Europe, and etc. But there are precious few business
trips these days.

Jeff
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The only decision you'll have to make is
Who goes in after the snake in the morning?

On Aug 9, 9:10*am, Jeff Findley wrote:
In article ,
says...



" wrote:

obviously fred never looked at the travel budget........

lots of travel between houston and KSC. That is lost work days.

Cite?

Bob is seriously in his own little world. *Companies routinely spread
their people around the world and simultaneously limit travel (which
would negate the "savings" of spreading your teams all over the planet).

Bob keeps forgetting about this wonderful thing called the Internet
which lets people communicate more efficiently. *Well that and
telephones. *A day doesn't go by in our office here without literally
thousands of emails and dozens of phone calls between the US, Canada,
India, China, Europe, and etc. *But there are precious few business
trips these days.

Jeff
--
The only decision you'll have to make is
Who goes in after the snake in the morning?

Given the choice of a short drive across town to investigate a issuer
that may cst millions or billions to resolve or a phone / video
conference I think the personal touch is far faster and better.....

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Given the choice of a short drive across town to investigate a issuer
that may cst millions or billions to resolve or a phone / video
conference I think the personal touch is far faster and better.....

That's the 1% case, IMHO. The 99% case is every job which can be done
in front of a computer. That includes many engineering design jobs,
computer programming jobs, many computer support jobs (VPN, Sunbelt,
Remote Desktop Connection, and etc), product support jobs (i.e. call
centers), and etc. Your 1% case happens when remote support fails.

Also, you're fighting upper management on this one. They see offshoring
and working remotely as ways to save money. You can tell upper
management that keeping jobs here is better than offshoring, but they're
likely to dismiss all of your arguments as biased (after all, it's your
job they're eventually offshoring). Even if customers demand "people on
the spot" they are still a very small percentage of a company's overall
workforce. The other 99% is going to be offshored no matter what.

Jeff
--
The only decision you'll have to make is
Who goes in after the snake in the morning?

On Aug 7, 7:30*am, bob haller safety advocate wrote:

certinally having a launch control team that only launches vehicles
isnt the height of efficency, no doubt most of them could be in flight
controllers too.

lots of equitement must be duplicated for the hand off between launch
team in florida and houston controllers..


Wrong, the jobs and the equipment are completely different. Launch
ops is vastly different from flight ops.

Brian Thorn wrote in
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That's nice in theory, but in reality they are often unable to. There
are far too many airliner crashes into buildings, highways, and
neighborhoods:

- El Al 1862 crashed into an apartment building in Amsterdam. 39
people, almost as many as on the plane, died on the ground
- TAM 3054 killed 12 on the ground in Sao Paolo
- Pan Am 103, the Lockerbie bombing, killed 11 on the ground
- Pacific Southwest 182 crashed into a San Diego neighborhood, killing
9 on the ground.
- American 587 killed 5 on the ground in New York City
- Air Florida 90 killed 4 on the ground in Washington
- The Concorde crash killed 4 on the ground in Paris
- American 191 killed 2 on the ground in Chicago
- Delta 191 killed 1 on the ground at DFW

Divided by the number of flights that is *safe*.

Now, if we're talking about a "system" that is supposed to drop multi-ton
chunks as it ascends ...