Given we won't have Japanese (or Swedish, for that matter) broadband speeds for another 100 years, I'd put my money towards magazines if I were you. As an added bonus - you'll exercise your imagination too!
Take the X-Prize, for instance. There were a number of potentially feasable projects, that could possibly do with better management or a more solid budget (which would still be 1/1000 of what NASA gets for some of their projects). Take Canadian Arrow, Pablo de LeÃn, et al.) Who says Government shouldn't invest into the public sector?
Maybe it's time [for NASA] to look at some of the commercial space projects being developed out there and take note how they're doing it. Perhaps even take one (or two) projects showing success under its wing and develop it further... Would surely save millions, decrease dependence on wacko nations like Russia and take reusability to a new level... Just my 2c.
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Given we won't have Japanese (or Swedish, for that matter) broadband speeds for another 100 years, I'd put my money towards magazines if I were you. As an added bonus - you'll exercise your imagination too!
Now, you wouldn't want a nice romantic high definition shot stopping for a reload every 10 seconds because of lack of bandwidth...
We still have time to catch up with the books then.
Take the X-Prize, for instance. There were a number of potentially feasable projects, that could possibly do with better management or a more solid budget (which would still be 1/1000 of what NASA gets for some of their projects). Take Canadian Arrow, Pablo de LeÃn, et al.) Who says Government shouldn't invest into the public sector?
Maybe it's time [for NASA] to look at some of the commercial space projects being developed out there and take note how they're doing it. Perhaps even take one (or two) projects showing success under its wing and develop it further... Would surely save millions, decrease dependence on wacko nations like Russia and take reusability to a new level... Just my 2c.