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2005-03-04 Home Front: Tech

Is this really a big deal...Or am I a wet blanket?

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Posted by Cb 2005-03-04 00:00:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Yes.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2005-03-04 12:10:24 AM|| 2005-03-04 12:10:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I find Fosset blowing a few million a marginally less interesting subject than Charles and Camillas wedding.

Posted by phil_b 2005-03-04 12:13:49 AM|| 2005-03-04 12:13:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Ya think he dropped any excess baggage on Tora Bora?

Posted by smartpoop 2005-03-04 2:10:16 AM|| 2005-03-04 2:10:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 It was a very hard engineering problem that was solved with private money. What's not to like about that?

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2005-03-04 3:26:12 AM|| 2005-03-04 3:26:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 The world is full of hard problems. It doesn't follow they are worth solving. Having said that I can see value in very long duration flights - UAVs that can stay in the air for days and fly anywhere in the world.

Posted by phil_b 2005-03-04 3:49:51 AM|| 2005-03-04 3:49:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Fosset is a sexagenarian superman. This project was worthy, alone, just as an example to the rest of us. I hope I'm half as active at his age.

Posted by Bulldog 2005-03-04 4:53:28 AM|| 2005-03-04 4:53:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 He took a tram through China. :)
He's crazy, rich and Anglo... good deal.

Posted by Shipman 2005-03-04 10:54:13 AM|| 2005-03-04 10:54:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Classical_Liberal : DITTO!

Posted by BigEd 2005-03-04 11:23:03 AM|| 2005-03-04 11:23:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm not interested in it, but agree with CL and know some people who are into it.

Posted by 2b 2005-03-04 11:31:38 AM|| 2005-03-04 11:31:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Has he blown over/under $100 million on his various around the world ego trips?

Posted by ed 2005-03-04 11:35:20 AM|| 2005-03-04 11:35:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Has he blown over/under $100 million on his various around the world ego trips?

Maybe we should form a Committee and all vote on how he spends his money.

Personally, *I* think it is cool, but I happen to like engineering and adventures. Besides, engineering problems tend to follow Sun Tzu's dictum that opportunies multiply as they are seized.

Posted by SteveS 2005-03-04 12:33:04 PM|| 2005-03-04 12:33:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 In that case, sign me up for the booze and hooker committee. Pushing engineering boundaries is a nonsequitor. Hot air ballons and round the world flights have already been done and his venture offers no practical value to society. There is no prize in being the second (or hundreth) in such ventures.

If he really wanted to push boundaries, such as being first man to finance and build a practical orbital spacecraft, then I will support him. But don't expect me to be cheering today at the runway when the Ego Has Landed.

Posted by ed 2005-03-04 12:47:10 PM|| 2005-03-04 12:47:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 the Ego has landed. Have to remember that one.

Posted by 2b 2005-03-04 12:55:29 PM|| 2005-03-04 12:55:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 ed--I don't understand. $100 million spent is $100 million spent. It wasn't like he set the money on fire--it went for supplies and materials and paid people's salaries. It went back into the economy. That he had fun doing it is just icing on the cake!

I don't see it as any different than a bunch of people spending $100 million collectively on houses, cars, clothing, etc. It went back into the system and will recirculate.

Posted by Dar 2005-03-04 3:13:29 PM|| 2005-03-04 3:13:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Too self indulgent for me to care. But no celebrity news for me either. To each his own.

Posted by Mark E. 2005-03-04 3:13:30 PM|| 2005-03-04 3:13:30 PM|| Front Page Top

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