Swincar E-Spider extremely flexible ATV-like vehicle

[Jon]

Interesting to hear the engineering side of the NASA cost debate.

I remember the first time I was ever exposed to the internet. Our family had a home computer, but the World Wide Web had not yet been invented; the internet was mostly used by research physicists and the military. A friend of my father's was an aerospace engineer visiting for a few days, and needed to access his account at NASA. He traveled with a small modem, the first one I had ever seen. My dad called me into our computer room, and his friend plugged the modem into both our computer and our telephone line. It squelched and squeaked for a little bit, and then he was connected to his account at NASA.

Unfortunately, while the technology has advanced, the media atmosphere has de-evolved. Now that same toilet seat would undergo serious media scrutiny over whether it was equally accessible to all permutations of gender, political affiliation, and religion.