Only a very small fraction of what people have thought of has even made it past that very first step of "How about some funding for this?".
Quote from: spectre9 on 11/01/2014 03:56 amOnly a very small fraction of what people have thought of has even made it past that very first step of "How about some funding for this?".concur with the assessment that we have only started to scratch the surface. however the question should go the other way around : good idea, if i could make this work how would it make any money?
Concord was a victim of a Boeing pr blitz.
Quote from: savuporo on 11/01/2014 05:46 amQuote from: spectre9 on 11/01/2014 03:56 amOnly a very small fraction of what people have thought of has even made it past that very first step of "How about some funding for this?".concur with the assessment that we have only started to scratch the surface. however the question should go the other way around : good idea, if i could make this work how would it make any money?Ok but one could ask why in other business the market didn't take so long to take the lead? Do you think that the development of aviation or car is still driven (not just supported) by public funding?You sure that the statement "it took so long because there is not enough funding" is based on evidence?
[pessimistic mode ON]It's good for me to see so much optimism among you but I suspect most of it is not based on evidence but on wishful thinking. Again, I'm not fully convinced about which of the four options I wrote is the most likely, just pondering and mumbling. But I cannot read in your comments any evidence or convincing fact that the actual margins here are very wide. As a person very passionate about ST - like any of you - and being involved in leading edge science projects I really hope in the unknown unknown and in the well known inability of our species of telling the future, but I'm beginning to suspect, 45 years after the amazing success of the Apollo Project and the incredibly quick ramping up in ST, that the failure of so many new technologies and approaches in the field suggests there are intrinsic limitations in what we will be actually able to do in space at any time. Musk or not Musk.Thanks everyone for your past and future comments on this thread.
Excerpt from NavalSeaFaring (NSF) forum in 1806: