When I saw the sparks fly, opening with Ben Franchuk's
"F__K the budget," I smiled at first and said, "Wow, I've started a fight!"
But I quickly became disturbed at the intensity of this exchange, and it
got me thinking. As miserable as it is to consider this, I had to wonder
if one possible answer to Fermi's question is that those other folks out
there could never launch because they could never settle the question of
who would pay for the project.
Aside from that, I'd like to thank Steve VanDevender
for the link on the physics book. I hope it's as good as you say, because
I've been needing some help in this area. I tried Richard Feynman's Six
Easy Pieces, and both of Stephen Hawking's books; Feynman was better,
but a lot of this still mystifies me. I liked some of what I saw on the
Autodynamics site because it seems to simplify things, but I remain open
to all viewpoints. Skeptical, but open.
The very brief mentions of time warps and space
warps got me thinking in another direction: gravity control. How much do
we now know about gravity, really? Anyone?
Keep looking up,
Curtis