On Dec 26, 2003, at 4:10 PM, Douglas Hudgins wrote:
> --- Bill Arnett <bill@No-Spam> wrote:
>>
>> No problem: just be willing to accept a higher than
>> usual percentage
>> of failures. There would be plenty of volunteers
>> anyway...
>
> Plenty of volunteers, perhaps. But neither NASA, nor
> the federal government, nor the media, nor the
> American people would ever be willing to accept such a
> failure rate in manned missions.
That's right. But over time perhaps it can be fixed. "We" accepted
far worse odds in the Pioneer days in the old west. And worse yet in
the early days of the exploration of the New World.
Maybe Bill Gates will decide he wants to go....
-- Bill Arnett bill@No-Spam http://nineplanets.org/ Emerald Hills CA USA 37 27 N 122 15 W