[ExI] Why space tech isn't cutting edge

spike spike66 at att.net
Mon Nov 19 20:57:21 UTC 2012


>... On Behalf Of Mike Dougherty
Subject: Re: [ExI] Why space tech isn't cutting edge

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 2:30 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

>>... Adrian, do invent such a coating, please sir...  Be aware however that
the path to such a coating in littered with the corpses of those 
> who have gone before and failed.

>...Are you available for sweeping the corpses aside?  I'd imagine they
would also greatly impede progress.
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No, for I am one of those corpses.  I have the failed processors tested at
the Berkeley cyclotron to show for it.

Sometimes great things are accomplished by those who do not know what cannot
be done.  The rest of the time, they learn what cannot be done and why,
often at great expense.

spike




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