Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.
Fascinating read. Blaming rockets on Hitler, might be a bit of a stretch, but I can totally relate to how inertia down a certain path limits innovation. I have a vague recollection of a commercially developed rail gun style launch system they were working on about 10 years ago when I was involved in those sorts of things, but I don't think anything ever came of it. I'm not sure I'd agree rockets can't get any better though. Incremental changes (like Sea Launch, for instance) can still move the field forward over time. I mean, take a look at the hard drive industry. They've been say that has hit the limits of physics for a long time now too.
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Fascinating read. Blaming rockets on Hitler, might be a bit of a stretch, but I can totally relate to how inertia down a certain path limits innovation. I have a vague recollection of a commercially developed rail gun style launch system they were working on about 10 years ago when I was involved in those sorts of things, but I don't think anything ever came of it. I'm not sure I'd agree rockets can't get any better though. Incremental changes (like Sea Launch, for instance) can still move the field forward over time. I mean, take a look at the hard drive industry. They've been say that has hit the limits of physics for a long time now too.
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