giveitawhril2008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> Well, it seems to me that if they merely thought of what steam power
> could do for ****ps, that the thought alone would have created its own
> demand. But, for one, I know if something performs poorly when first
> demonstrated, that provides negative feedback, which may lead to it
> being dropped. Like the French military officer who invented a steam-
> powered automobile shortly before the American Revolution (1769,
> maybe?). It moved very slowly and crashed into a house, and his
> superiors told him to drop this research.
>
> People would have to think beyond early stage failures. All the early
> stage failures in the U.S. rocket program did not deter us, in part, I
> assume, because we knew the objective was obtainable: the Russians had
> already launched rockets into space!
Maybe we think differently than the ancient Greeks.
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