Comments on: Quiet Supersonic Platform http://www.themannings.org/soapbox/2003/08/28/quiet-supersonic-platform/ Pragmatic Libertarianism Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:15:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Jeremy http://www.themannings.org/soapbox/2003/08/28/quiet-supersonic-platform/#comment-287 Jeremy Tue, 13 Jan 2004 17:16:49 +0000 http://www.themannings.org/soapbox/2003/08/28/quiet-supersonic-platform/#comment-287 Mike, Thank you for your thoughtful comment. You clearly know what you are talking about. I'll defer to you on whose fault it is that we are so far behind where we should be on these technologies. Thank you for setting me straight. I agree with you. I hope the upcoming generations are able to get involved in this. I also agree with you that as long as research on these technologies is controlled and dominated by the federal bureaucracy we will continue to get nowhere fast. Thanks for reading the site and thanks again for an insightful comment. Mike,

Thank you for your thoughtful comment. You clearly know what you are talking about. I’ll defer to you on whose fault it is that we are so far behind where we should be on these technologies. Thank you for setting me straight.

I agree with you. I hope the upcoming generations are able to get involved in this. I also agree with you that as long as research on these technologies is controlled and dominated by the federal bureaucracy we will continue to get nowhere fast.

Thanks for reading the site and thanks again for an insightful comment.

]]> By: Mike Cataldo http://www.themannings.org/soapbox/2003/08/28/quiet-supersonic-platform/#comment-286 Mike Cataldo Tue, 13 Jan 2004 00:29:14 +0000 http://www.themannings.org/soapbox/2003/08/28/quiet-supersonic-platform/#comment-286 Jeremy Just finished reading your post about the QSP program. I agree with 95% of it. However, it wasn't the "baby boomer" generation that let you down. It was the generation before the baby boomers. They decided that education wasn't important enough and the baby boomer generation became the generation that took the easy way out. NASA's better, faster, cheaper solution was really lazier, lamer and lost. They lost the Apollo plans, tossed out the X20 program (which would have given us a better system than the shuttle before most of us baby boomers left grammer school. If you want a tragedy look at how Macnamara really killed most of the hypersonic programs in the early 60s. NASA failed but mainly because the generation before fired everyone who knew what they were doing in 1970. No one from my generation wanted to work for an organization that spent more generating reasons for its existance than actual spacecraft and then got the federal government to prevent most space exploration unless it was federal based. What a waste of the last thirty years. I hope the generation of kids we are educating now get their heads into this problem. Jeremy
Just finished reading your post about the QSP program. I agree with 95% of it. However, it wasn’t the “baby boomer” generation that let you down. It was the generation before the baby boomers. They decided that education wasn’t important enough and the baby boomer generation became the generation that took the easy way out. NASA’s better, faster, cheaper solution was really lazier, lamer and lost. They lost the Apollo plans, tossed out the X20 program (which would have given us a better system than the shuttle before most of us baby boomers left grammer school. If you want a tragedy look at how Macnamara really killed most of the hypersonic programs in the early 60s. NASA failed but mainly because the generation before fired everyone who knew what they were doing in 1970. No one from my generation wanted to work for an organization that spent more generating reasons for its existance than actual spacecraft and then got the federal government to prevent most space exploration unless it was federal based. What a waste of the last thirty years. I hope the generation of kids we are educating now get their heads into this problem.

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