Space Access '04 Conference Review

savuporo writes "The annual Space Access Society conference was held last week, with most of all the alt.space heavyweights being present. Speakers included people from XCOR, X-Prize, Armadillo Aerospace and even NASA. The review is available at HobbySpace. In contrast to last years conference, private space transportation is now literally off the ground and the focus of discussion has gradually shifted from hardware designs to regulation, liability and legislation which remain the roadblocks to be cleared on path to outer space."

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Re:Carmack's out of the race

[dpilot]

Which will happen first:

An Armadillo Aerospace launch
or
The Doom3 product launch

Enquiring minds want to know.

Bureaucracy at its finest

[c0d3h4x0r]

..and the focus of discussion has gradually shifted from hardware designs to regulation, liability and legislation which remain the roadblocks to be cleared on path to outer space.

But the plans have been on display for months in the public affairs office, in the basement with no lights, in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door that says "Beware of the Leopard"!

Bureaucracy will be the end of the human race. Some impending catastrophe will show up with little warning, like an asteroid headed toward Earth, and we will be too busy recounting votes and figuring out OSHA regulations to react before it hits us.

Natural selection at work. I guess the good news is that it means surviving life in the universe won't be plagued by burearcracy...