John...nice try, thats the old straw man argument
And talk about having their heads inserted into their anal orifices, we have people saying, in essence, "you people are too stupid to make a complex high-earth-orbit satellite work", and at the same time, "you people are foolish to invest any energy into educating students about satellite technology", or even worse, "you are foolish to try to take students who are already interested in satellite technology and get them excited about the possibility of using that technology for non-commercial (i.e., AMATEUR) radio communications". Give me a break. Maybe one of those folks, a REAL rocket scientist, will someday be the person who leads us amateurs to success.
all the "cliches" that you quote aside I'll try one "A person has got to know their limitations"...and any organization that allows a "remove before flight" flag to stay on in flight is not dealing with their limitations. Indeed in the real world, pilots are grounded permanently for taking off with one of those flapping.
my entire point is that AMSAT ought to fly vehicles in concert with the limitations of the capabilities of the folks who are building them...not in concert with their imagination
anyway this thread is as I noted pretty well talked out. Hopefully the space shuttle can launch without the foam coming off and banging the vehicle.
Robert WB5MZO
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