Re: RE: Re: starship-design: Re: Perihelion Maneuver

[Kelly St <KellySt@aol.com>]

In a message dated 12/5/97 1:59:41 AM, lparker@cacaphony.net wrote:

>> I would argue we pick only _very_ likely advances.  Either that or
>> admit that there's no particular reason to think the design will
>> _ever_ work.
>
>If we had always funded research that way, we wouldn't even have fission...
>
>Lee

You don't do research that way (you research everything, just in case) but
when you do engneering design you don't plan on anything that depends on a lot
of luck.

Kelly