2nd February 2003, 10:29 PM
I think maybe if Bush gave NASA some pressure to get the X-10 model lazy's talking about, or any other succesful model that's been made since that was announced, succesfully made and launched, we'd see a brave new step that would, more importantly to people who don't care about mankind's future expansion, be far cheaper. Shuttles with their throw away million dollar parts are just plain wasteful, and no one in their right mind would run an air port where you threw away more than half the plane before the trip was over.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)