Comments on: Lost Lunar Dreams http://scottgammans.com/blog/2010/02/02/lost-lunar-dreams/ random doodles from a middle-aged trekkie Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:44:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Scott Gammans http://scottgammans.com/blog/2010/02/02/lost-lunar-dreams/comment-page-1/#comment-396 Scott Gammans Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:24:35 +0000 http://scottgammans.com/blog/?p=277#comment-396 I would <strong>like</strong> to believe that what the President envisions actually could become a reality—a blossoming private sector space industry with NASA as a guiding hand, but it's hard not to be cynical after so many sputtering starts and stops. Here's hoping that out-of-the-box big thinkers like <a href="http://www.adastrarocket.com/aarc/VASIMR" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Dr. Franklin Chang-Diaz</a> flourish in the latest "new era". I would like to believe that what the President envisions actually could become a reality—a blossoming private sector space industry with NASA as a guiding hand, but it’s hard not to be cynical after so many sputtering starts and stops.

Here’s hoping that out-of-the-box big thinkers like Dr. Franklin Chang-Diaz flourish in the latest “new era”.

]]> By: Sean Mahoney http://scottgammans.com/blog/2010/02/02/lost-lunar-dreams/comment-page-1/#comment-395 Sean Mahoney Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:45:07 +0000 http://scottgammans.com/blog/?p=277#comment-395 Scott, Great reminder that we don't (and shouldn't) have to think small. Good people allow themselves to squander their passion and ideals because it might force them to "stick out", go against the "norm", or make something just slightly beyond the minimal effort. Like they say at despair.com, none of us is as dumb as all of us. The next question is, "what are we going to do about it?" Scott,
Great reminder that we don’t (and shouldn’t) have to think small. Good people allow themselves to squander their passion and ideals because it might force them to “stick out”, go against the “norm”, or make something just slightly beyond the minimal effort. Like they say at despair.com, none of us is as dumb as all of us.

The next question is, “what are we going to do about it?”

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