Re: [ERPS] Slashdotters want to be astronauts

2002-12-12 Thread David Masten
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 01:26, John Carmack wrote: > At 07:11 PM 12/9/2002 -0800, you wrote: > >On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 14:08, Randall Clague wrote: > > > I generally avoid marketing, promotion, and advertising, preferring an > > > "if you build it, they will come" approach. > > > >I tried that approac

[ERPS] Apollo 17

2002-12-12 Thread GDNordley
Gentlefolk, Thirty years ago, I had just began work as the "Interrange Operations Officer" in the Network Control division of the AF Satellite Test Center (the "STC," the big blue cube on highway 101). Part of my duties involved overseeing the transmission of orbital elements of the VELA HOTEL

Re: [ERPS] Slashdotters want to be astronauts

2002-12-12 Thread John Carmack
At 07:11 PM 12/9/2002 -0800, you wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 14:08, Randall Clague wrote: > I generally avoid marketing, promotion, and advertising, preferring an > "if you build it, they will come" approach. I tried that approach once. Ended up without money. You can build the best mousetrap th