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Subject: Re: Kasparov's manager answers Hsu

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:43:41 01/15/00

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On January 15, 2000 at 12:24:46, James Robertson wrote:

>>No, but it does mean to build one of those alternatives is going to take a
>>_bunch_ of time.  Which was the original point here.  If it took the original
>>Nasa team nearly 10 years to do it. It would take the same time roughly to do
>>it again, if no one does what Nasa did.
>
>The original point - almost. :) The original point was whether or not the moon
>lander could have been built in a similar amount of time if NASA had replaced
>its crew halfway through the project. :)

The answer is almost certainly "no".  Just redoing the apollo capsule almost
dumped the entire project.


>
>Obviously, the DB team was a bit smaller so each person played a much more
>substantial role, and would probably be harder to replace. Could Hsu have been
>replaced by another person or group of people? Let's find out in some other
>thread (we have too many here, and if we could condense our discussion to one or
>two it would be easier to handle :).
>
>James



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