[AR] Re: Congratulations, Bill Claybaugh and Orbital Sciences!!!
- From: JMKrell@xxxxxxx
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 10:20:33 -0400 (EDT)
Great video!
In a message dated 10/2/2013 6:54:10 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
monroe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Bill
Here's one just for you from my friends on the satellite tracker
mailing list.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oyMZkbtMVk
Monroe
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [AR] Re: Congratulations, Bill Claybaugh and Orbital
> Sciences!!!
> From: Norman Yarvin <yarvin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, October 01, 2013 8:43 am
> To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 04:00:57PM -0700, Rand Simberg wrote:
> >That's not what we're insisting. We're insisting that we should come
up
> >with consistent terminology, on which everyone agrees.
>
> That's a bit much. Words in human language are and have always been
> vague; one writes precisely by using lots of words in such a
> combination that the ambiguity is removed, not by nailing down precise
> meanings of every word as one does in the hard sciences. It's one
> thing to insist on words that were originally defined with a precise
> meaning retaining that meaning, but to insist that words that were
> originally defined imprecisely start having a precise meaning is too
> much. (And no, a hundred-page NASA spec is not a precise definition;
> there are always plenty of ambiguities in such specs.) Especially
> when you admit there isn't much point in using the term.
>
> In this case, the meaningful distinction is probably that Orbital's
> capsule is human-rated while its launch vehicle is not, while in
> SpaceX's case both are human-rated. (At least from the discussion I
> presume this is the case.) And it's meaningful not because of any
> fundamental technical property but in social terms: it means many
> man-years went into politely arguing with NASA about many of those
> ambiguities in that long spec (whatever it happens to be at the
> moment), and in changing the hardware whenever they happened to win
> the argument.
>
> There are always going to be frivolous words and frivolous people;
> trying to stamp out either is a waste of time -- and if you really
> want to try, icy contempt is a better tool than passionate pleading.
>
>
> --
> Norman Yarvin http://yarchive.net/blog
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