for better or for worse, this is part of the culture and practice at NASA. For several decades they appear from the outside (to me) to be armies of slugs and me

for better or for worse, this is part of the culture and practice at NASA. For several decades they appear from the outside (to me) to be armies of slugs and meeting-addicts. Yet look at the original tooling? the amazing engineering -- not in macro, but in the parts -- that comes out over and over. Then you get humans in that machine who are genuinely competent, somehow. We need NASA to work, they do have a great t-shirt. Maybe "slow" is the antidote to ADHD here on the nets?