Thursday, September 16, 1999

Interesting observation -- 12:25 pm CST, Update by The Master

Was checking out Chaos Manor (Jerry Pournelle's personal website), and saw this rather interesting observation on NASA and beaurocracy in general. Here's an excerpt (the whole thing is in his Wednesday 9/15/99 posting):

I gather that Hurricane Floyd didn't de-NASA us. I have mixed emotions on this. Shuttle is hideously inefficient, the George Abbey Full Employment system -- it needs all those 20,000 or so people to make it work, and thus accomplishes its primary mission. The primary mission of any bureaucracy is to hire and pay bureaucrats; after that's done it may do something useful, but it will do that first. NASA and Shuttle have become more interested in the primary mission than any other purpose. God looks after fools, drunks, and the United States, according to Bismark; but apparently He didn't think it in our best interests to shift Floyd a bit left..

I think he has a point.

News for 09/16/1999

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