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> politicians should never ever insert themselves into engineering! Never. Ever. So Manhattan Project and Apollo program were mistakes, in your opinion?
by danhak 7y ago
> politicians should never ever insert themselves into engineering! Never. Ever.
So Manhattan Project and Apollo program were mistakes, in your opinion?
- api 7y agoIn those cases politicians set the goals. They did not pick how it was to be done. If NASA came back and said "we think we can put humans on the moon with a big catapult" and they were right, we would have built a big catapult. They set the goals and let the real professionals do the work. What I dislike about this and other proposals is politicians specifically saying what technologies should and should not be used. That's the road to an expensive failure. Instead we should just tax carbon and set emissions goals and let the people who know how to build stuff build stuff.
- danhak 7y agoThanks for clarifying that's a fair point.
- selimthegrim 7y agoSee my caveat in reply to GP though
- selimthegrim 7y agoLook at Dieselgate where the engineers pulled the wool over the politicians’ eyes and they merrily kept cranking down the emissions targets without checking if or how they were met