There was an interesting discussion at the #SpaceTechExpo on Tuesday afternoon. An indefinite extension is one of the key recommendations in my book.
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There was an interesting discussion at the #SpaceTechExpo on Tuesday afternoon. An indefinite extension is one of the key recommendations in my book.
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Something that was rather confused in the article linked is that neither I nor the other participants referred to a “hands off” period — that’s entirely the construction of the writer (as you can see if you look where the quote marks go). The reason I think the current regime will serve us well is that the FAA is already able to regulate for any reason relating to the safety of the uninvolved public, or when there have been events which (to excerpt from the law):
* have resulted in a serious or fatal injury (to participants or crew)
*contributed to an unplanned event or series of events during a licensed or permitted commercial
human space flight that posed a high risk of causing a serious or fatal injury (to participants or crew)
And that to me seems to be sufficient. In other words, I would NOT support the current environment if it were “hands off” — but it is NOT. The current regime keeps the FAA focused on public safety or on preventing the recurrence of problems (which need NOT have actually caused an accident!) which have ACTUALLY HAPPENED, as opposed to the much wider field of things someone IMAGINES might someday be a problem.
So… you’re against the Precautionary Principle? Even though that principle might, at some future date, be shown possibly to have been applicable to something or other?
Have You No Decency, Sir?
Thanks for the clarification, Jeff.
Note that I could have, but didn’t quote you exactly. 😉
Unrelated, but I just stumbled across this Daily Mail article that says NASA has ordered its employees to not speak with or e-mail any Russians because of their actions in Ukraine – unless it directly relates to the ISS. That’ll teach ’em!
That’s not true. According to the Planetary Society, scientists working on Curiosity have been told they can continue working with with their Russian contacts, *unless* they happen to be Russian government officials.
It’s not clear what activities are strongly affected. If Putin asks NASA for an autographed picture of Charlie Bolden, he apparently won’t get a response, but everything else seems to be business as usual.
That’s about what I figured. It was in the Daily Mail after all. Today they ran a story of a UFO buzzing deer, and to me it looks to be the same quad-rotor drone that a friend brought over earlier this week, with a triangular body and two wide-spaced, bright LED headlights.