Yeah, it really is sad. Some of the smartest people I have ever known worked or want to work at NASA. It isn't that there is a lack of talent, I think there is just a lack of direction. The government is unable to provide direction... The free market needs to do that.
A lot of times they aren't open to doing new things. I remember reading a story a few weeks ago about top NASA officials not allowing the engineers below them to use quaternions instead of rotation matrices when quaternions clearly were what should have been used. It seems that a lot of government organizations are static because they have no reason to perform since they won't go out of business if they don't. The free market, on the other hand, is always evolving.
Yeah, it really is sad. Some of the smartest people I have ever known worked or want to work at NASA. It isn't that there is a lack of talent, I think there is just a lack of direction. The government is unable to provide direction... The free market needs to do that.
A lot of times they aren't open to doing new things. I remember reading a story a few weeks ago about top NASA officials not allowing the engineers below them to use quaternions instead of rotation matrices when quaternions clearly were what should have been used. It seems that a lot of government organizations are static because they have no reason to perform since they won't go out of business if they don't. The free market, on the other hand, is always evolving.