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Gabrielle Giffords - Ignorant Bitch
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 09:36:26PM -0400, Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:
"OM" wrote in message ... ...NASA needs only three *breakthroughs*: 1) A blank check that Congress can never touch unless it's to give NASA more money. Oh bull. Sorry, but there's better things I want my tax dollars spent on than a blank check for NASA. I'm a huge fan of space, I'd love to see more done, but a blank check, hardly. NASA needs a blank check like America needs bigger government. Apart from the obvious problem of the military being in such close proximity, NASA lacks the diversity of the capitalist free market system. For that reason alone there is surely no sense in throwing trillions of dollars at the existing bureaucracy. 2) An official mandate to expand Space Exploration and the Exploitation of Space combined with working closely with private industry to produce their own advanced technologies. This one I can probably buy into. This, at least is reasonable. It might be better if it were worded differently: An official mandate to marshall space exploration efforts in concert with private industry. The trickle-down theory of government spending at work. 3) An officially mandated return to the management style that allowed Mercury, Gemini and Apollo to succeed, which will include the elimination of all the middle-management self-preservation elements of red tape. Anyone caught trying to play bureacracy bull**** games that interfere with progress is sent to jail. This is sort of ironic because despite the idea that NASA had minimal bureaucracy, it built up a huge one simply to accomplish the Moon landings. It wasn't a bunch of guys going around just building stuff. When you can track a part from when it was built, who built it, where it was placed in storage, what testing it went under, you have to have a bureaucracy. When you are managing dozens of projects, you need a bureaucracy. Yeah, well we have computers now to manage all that stuff so there's really going to be no need to hire all of the worlds middle-managers to get meaningful space operations off the ground. Hence, no need for an unlimited budget. I think when you look at the record of large projects at the scale of the Apollo program, the control of excess spending is something government doesn't do very well, even with all the meticulous record- keeping. ...Those are the kind of breakthroughs NASA needs to get us into serious space exploration above and beyond what we're doing now. Sorry OM, to me, this is mostly just fanboy talk. These discussions are never meant to be representative of actual scientific undertakings. Presumably at least some of us are here are interested in sharing ideas and discussing their merits. Robert Collins |
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