Poker Perambulation

When you put “I’m from the government.” ahead of that things can get surreal. Now throw in departmental regulation and it gets terrifying.

"We're experts in air traffic management and control for airplanes," said Hubbard, who is working on the FAA project with Stanford aeronautics and astronautics colleague Associate Professor Juan Alonso. "We plan to apply this expertise to the whole question of space traffic control. We need to figure out what kinds of systems will be necessary to tell flight controllers how to keep the space rockets out of the way of the flight from San Francisco to Washington."

Along with the aerospace experts who will develop policies for space launches, traffic management and human space flight, Stanford researchers at the Graduate School of Business will have a hand in examining and forecasting what business opportunities exist in space travel and exploration. Which evidently those business aren't smart enough to figure out on their own like business has since it was the barter system, I'll add.

"This emerging new commercial space area could be a business of many billions of dollars a year," Hubbard said. And we want our cut, I'll add.

Seems sort of reasonable. We don’t want those darn space ship crashing into our Vegas flight. But, think about it. Your one of those X-contest guys sending up your space ship. Are you also so dumb that you’ll send it out into space without looking in hindsight at the route and saying, “Oops, flight 107 got in the way. My bad.”?

Is the FAA the choice to handle this upgrade or is it more an opportunity to expand the department and ask for added funding? After all we have the other fairly costly entity called NASA and they been throwing things into space without knocking 747s out of the sky for quite a few years. It would seem there is a fairly responsible mechanism in place that has already resolved the issue.

ADDENDUM:

Part of this was inspired by my watching CSPAN. It was a speaker talking about crippling the new Health Care Legislation. One of the things is there won’t be a way to override a veto with the votes available. So, part of his solution was to cripple funding. And the example was not funding the 16,000 additional IRS agents that are needed to implement the mandatory penalties associated with not participating. But, then the White House, will likely call it job creation and use “stimulus” funds.

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