From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Jul 14 2002 - 23:32:38 MDT
At 05:34 PM 7/14/02 -0400, Dan wrote:
>Yeap. I suggest scrapping NASA all together and let the market rule in
>rocketry and spaceflight.
I've been wondering how those who extol the market's unparalleled success
in getting things done faster and cheaper and better account for the lack
of a free enterprise space flight system superior to NASA's. I gather that
in the US certain things are forbidden by law, but surely the market can't
be stalled by petty national restrictions? Or is it the looming presence of
a vast state-funded entity that is (allegedly) incompetent but *at least
there in place*, that inhibits potential rivals? Still, why doesn't someone
do what Venter did--use the publicly-funded and hence free data and
industrial support system and zoom away in parallel *with superior outcomes*?
Damien Broderick
[just wondering]
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