What have you seen at NASA that leads you to think that they will be the ones to lead us into space?
The NASA mindset is that only Airforce pilots with college degrees can go into space. All it really takes to go into space is the ability to sit in a chair and to be able to hold onto your cookies in microgravity.
They are also very unilateral in their approach to space. They pick a method and just use that. With a bunch of small launch companies, you get a bunch of different approaches and the best ones will succeed. For that same reason, I don't think that Boeing or any of the other big will make it.
Also, not all big, market dominating companies act like MS. Look at Intel. MS wins a race by tossing out caltrops, Intel wins it by running faster.
While I might have some reservations about Rutan (great designer, I just don't like his attitude), I'd love to have a space program run by Carmak. Imagine whileing away the long hours to a destination while play Quake 6.0....
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This seems like a good carrot to dangle to keep NASA from giving missions to smaller companies like SpaceX.
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When the post he's replying to called someone an idiot? Neutral moderation would be nice.
Unfortunately, this story comes from their own website.
Is anyone else here old enough to remember that MTV use to actually show music videos?
...flooding the channel with more wrestling, Ghost Boinkers, and other shows aimed to bring in more of their new core market: unemployed rednecks.
What have you seen at NASA that leads you to think that they will be the ones to lead us into space? The NASA mindset is that only Airforce pilots with college degrees can go into space. All it really takes to go into space is the ability to sit in a chair and to be able to hold onto your cookies in microgravity. They are also very unilateral in their approach to space. They pick a method and just use that. With a bunch of small launch companies, you get a bunch of different approaches and the best ones will succeed. For that same reason, I don't think that Boeing or any of the other big will make it. Also, not all big, market dominating companies act like MS. Look at Intel. MS wins a race by tossing out caltrops, Intel wins it by running faster. While I might have some reservations about Rutan (great designer, I just don't like his attitude), I'd love to have a space program run by Carmak. Imagine whileing away the long hours to a destination while play Quake 6.0....