From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 2 12:42:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA22733 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 12:42:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.konnections.com (mail.konnections.com [192.41.71.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA22727 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 12:42:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from castle (root@ip205.konnections.com [192.41.71.205]) by mail.konnections.com (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id NAA00101; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 13:40:10 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <33441469.17282C38@konnections.com> Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 13:34:49 -0700 From: mike allison Organization: Publisher -- Burning Eagle Book Company X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.0 i486) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nate Williams CC: Terry Lambert , proff@suburbia.net, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Internal clock References: <199704012051.NAA05487@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199704012206.PAA12178@phaeton.artisoft.com> <199704012229.PAA09779@rocky.mt.sri.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Nate Williams wrote: > > Terry Lambert writes: > > > Really, the issue of putting a man on Mars is designing a good space > > > ship, not actually building the darn ship. > > And, if we design the space-ship correctly, it'll solve all of our > transportation problems since a space-ship is just a special purpose > 'transportation' device. So, if we break the problem up into cleanly > divisable component areas, it'll affect *all* vehicles we design from > that point on, then all of our transportation problems will go away. > I have to disagree in the sense of design supra building. I think design is fine, but there has to be the ability to follow and implement the design during its life. We sit here joking about Charlie Babbage but his designs, albeit excellent and workable, philosophically, were not practicable and weren't for decades. Look at the space program. Now I don't know JS about NASA, but I know we got to the moon on Tube Technology. The design was right and the tools we're adequate for the job. Newton and Galileo (however you spell it) might have DESIGNED us to the moon, but it took the technology to make it happen. No problems were solved until that ship left the ground. {well, that's not true. The desigh theories led to many other useful things building up to the event. The automobile has parts of probably every invention and discovery known to man all rolled up in one package....) Designing a solution means that POTENTIALLY, all of our transportation problems go away.... -Mike