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- From: rmc@wang.com (rmc)
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- Subject: Re: Hubble
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 19:46:48 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: henry@zoo.toronto.edu's message of Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:06:41 GMT
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- kentm@aix.rpi.edu (Michael V. Kent) and henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry
- Spencer) respectively write:
-
- > >...An optimist would say NASA has gotten out of the
- > >megaproject mentality. A pessimist....Henry?
- >
- > I'd say they're being slowly forced out of it because cost bloat has
- > gotten so bad that Congress will no longer tolerate it. They still
- > see small projects as supplements to the megaprojects rather than
- > replacements for them, though; it's only just starting to dawn on
- > them that there won't be any more megaprojects.
-
- I thought it was that the Congress-critters had so bloated themselves
- with giga-projects that they no longer had time to think about
- mega-projects, but that small projects were so far down in the noise
- that once proposed no one would take the time required to oppose
- them...
-
- R Mark Chilenskas
- Chilenskas@Office.wang.com
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