8 thoughts on “Commercial Crew Procurement Issues”

  1. If the article is correct and I owned a rocket company I’d stop doing business with NASA. Anything touched by NASA I would withdraw from, but would finish anything that short term would include profit. If I had a vision for the future of my company I would see NASA as the enemy of that vision.

    The strings that come with some money can hang ya.

    From the other thread. If China has ambition to own the moon we need a settlement charter active now to counter that. The only way to beat a monolithic national ambition is individual ambitions set free. It’s time law concerning claims and ownership faced the reality that things are going to be owned one way or the other. No bullshit about the common inheritance of mankind will stop that.

    The government is out of control. No company should willingly accept more regulation.

    1. What happens to online forums that don’t have either a moderator (equivalent to a dictator of a nation/state), or some sort of karma/tiered membership system, where some votes are more equal than others? The answer is that it drowns in spam and becomes non-functional. Maybe we all need to have it out with each other here first and straighten things out before worrying about the moon and Mars.

      1. It’s a thought. I don’t know much about the art of persuasion. I’ve read or heard that the German propagandists learned their art from America! which doesn’t come as much of a surprise to me.

        You would think that after thousands of years we’d come up with a rational way to make group decisions. I really think we’ve given up adult responsibilities to children that look like grown ups and act like imbeciles.

  2. The strings that the government uses to control the major institutions in this country were all spun from “free” government money.

    2. I remember writing Eliza like programs before ever hearing about it. With the word salads I often come up with, I wonder why you don’t suspect me of being a bot? [It’s low blood sugar. I try to stay away from the keyboard when I’m aware of it.]

      “A bot” – like Agent Smith?

      Now that’s more a bot like response!

      1. Well, low blood sugar and a really warped view of humanity and reality. …eh, I’ll call it a quantum mechanics thing for cover. Physics can really distort your perception of reality (and you thought it was religion?)

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