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At 07:44 PM 24/5/99 +1000, Guy Wittig wrote:
>Billy
>>
>>You're right Kev. I believe that on the next space shuttle
>>launch, the NASA engineers are going to try putting the engines
>>at the top, firing upwards.
>
>
>And without people trying new ideas and living with the adverse comments
>from the status-quo NASA would still be using Mercury rockets because they
>were simple, clean and functional.

Nah. Not powerful enough. The Russians are still lifting 
bigger payloads with their original rocket motors. Which 
means they got it right earlier and are still doing it 
right.

>
>Not that I approve of consoles, but this is obviously a dumb statement.

Possibly, but only from your myopic perspective.

Guy, one more time, you can't take DIR, change it, 
and call it DIR.

You can't take an entire system, change a piece of 
it, and then rely on the continuing integrity of the 
system.

And as far as 'people trying new ideas and living 
with the adverse comments from the status-quo' goes,
why don;t you take a look at the half baked people who 
get on this list with their ill-conceived ideas to 
'improve' a system they clearly don't understand.

Not one of them can match the knowledge, experience, 
ability, safety and achievements of the people who 
invented DIR. People who, dive some of the most 
demanding environments in the world, and who, 
tellingly, dive DIR just the way it is, with none
of these so-called 'improvements'.

Ever stopped to wonder why?

If that doesn't tell you something, nothing will.

>
>There is always a place for well informed, well thought out innovation.
>And
>if DIR does not ever take on board innovation then eventually it will become
>irrelevent.

Says who?

rgrds     billyw

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