Re: Krushnick Effect

Darrell,

You are on target ... as usual I might add. Hey, buy back ROL and
reverse it back into a USABLE site once more! PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEZE :)

The 'cool factor' is cool, its just that I feel that bigger is better
isn't ALWAYS the way togo. I remember back in the 80s and 90s, where
models kept getting bigger and bigger. There was a lot being learned
back then. Now, ANYONE with a big enough bank roll, can just BUY a big
2 story tall rocket!

And that brings up another thing that had been on my chest for a few
years:

Ky Michaelson, BOUGHT his flight to space. He didn't formulate the
propellant. He didn't design the booster. He didn't design and build
the flight computers or telemetry units, or the flight transmitters or
ground receivers. All he did was gather the talent together and bank
roll the affair. And after what 2-3 attempts you are bound to get it
right eventually :)

I use this a PRIME example of what money can buy you today.

But because he throws free Super Bowl parties (bribes) and gives away a
lot of 'samples', his ass is kissed... as it should be! :)

I have met in my years so many talented and gifted people who
unfortunately didn't make millions of dollars in Hollywood jumping off
buildings as stuntmen. If they had the money Ky has made, they would
be orbiting micro satellite for fun by now...

I know I know, how DARE I speak such things of the 'GREAT ONE'! Bad
Lunarlos!

Darrell D. Mobley wrote:
syncbus@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Something good has been lost, I don't know how to define it but it
seems prevalent everywhere. At a time when information exchange has
never been easier, everything has been simplified to the point of loss.

Enter the age of "consumer rocketry".

Liken it to UseNET 20 years ago -- Prior the AOL-ization of consumer
computer users, there were people who actually knew how computers
worked, and therefore discussed them in terms of actual knowledge.

Hobby rocketry has evolved in the same way the Internet has since AOL
and Microsoft enabled regular people to flock onto the medium. Most
fliers today are more interested in simply "flying" as opposed to
knowing "why" their rockets fly. The "cool factor" significantly
outweighs the "why factor" in the hobby today.

.

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