shuttle disaster [OT]

[Condon Thomas A KPWA]

Bill Campbell <mailto:bill at celestial.com> typed thusly on Tuesday, February
04, 2003 1:11 PM:

> When I was racing cars for a living, I knew that there
> was a certain danger involved every time I took my car on
> the track.  Furthermore there's a tremendous amount of
> trust amongst the drivers who're running wheel-to- wheel
> in open wheel cars at 140+ miles per hour (and we also
> knew which drivers couldn't be trusted :-). 
> 
> On the other hand, I would never have raced in a car
> built by the lowest bidder, or maintained by government
> programs. 

Not to denigrate what it takes to be a car racer, but to travel to space I
wouldn't care if it was maintained by idiots.  Oh, congress is involved
already.  ;-}>


In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord,

Tom  :-})

Thomas A. Condon
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