>"Man is the best computer we can put aboard
> a spacecraft... and the only one that can
> be mass produced with unskilled labor."
> --Wernher von Braun
This is only partly true - and is less true
now than when he said it, since computers have
come such a long way.
Finding a human to last as long as the still
-operating voyager craft would have been a bit
tricky..
The main point of sending humans into space is
probably colonisation..
The solution, for both the USA and India, is a cheaper space program. Use X-Prize type prizes to enable entreprenuers to evolve cheap re-usable spacecraft. NASA and government organisations are no good at this - their infrastructure is too expensive for the commercialisation of space.. $600 million per shuttle launch?? come on guys..
EULA s are not entirely enforcable anyway. For instance, if a manufacturer wrote in small print "by opening this package the user agrees to give microsoft his house" do you think a court would uphold it?
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Re:If an asteroid is on collision course...
Well if asteroid time Im off down the pub..
So is SCO General Custer? :-)
>Linux is like a wigwam - no windows, no gates and an apache inside..
(we had to get SCO into the thread somewhere..)
>"Man is the best computer we can put aboard > a spacecraft... and the only one that can > be mass produced with unskilled labor." > --Wernher von Braun This is only partly true - and is less true now than when he said it, since computers have come such a long way. Finding a human to last as long as the still -operating voyager craft would have been a bit tricky.. The main point of sending humans into space is probably colonisation..
The solution, for both the USA and India, is a cheaper space program. Use X-Prize type prizes to enable entreprenuers to evolve cheap re-usable spacecraft. NASA and government organisations are no good at this - their infrastructure is too expensive for the commercialisation of space.. $600 million per shuttle launch?? come on guys..
EULA s are not entirely enforcable anyway. For instance, if a manufacturer wrote in small print "by opening this package the user agrees to give microsoft his house" do you think a court would uphold it?