Pioneering Space National Summit: So Far, Nothing But Crickets
Keith’s note: The “Pioneering Space National Summit” was held in Washington, DC on 19-20 February 2015. Attendance was by invitation only and media were refused entry. The organizers – most notably master of ceremonies Rick Tumlinson – spoke of all the wonderful things that would result from this event. Well, it has been 4 months. Other than a declaration that was proclaimed shortly after the meeting, nothing else seems to have been generated. Checking the website there seems to be little in the way of output – just two documents only a couple of pages long that are mostly semi-edited meeting notes/outlines: Report: Deliberation #1 – Vision (Group A) and Report: Deliberation #2 – Strategy (Group A). Two other documents are apparently being edited.
That’s it?
– Yet Another Plan For Outer Space, earlier post
– Pioneering Space National Summit Details Emerge, earlier post
– Alliance for Space Development: Yawn – Yet Another Space Group, earlier post
– Space Advocates Work Together By Not Working Together, earlier post
– Move Along. This Is Not The Space Policy You’re Looking For., earlier post
Clearly the top-down strategic level approach cannot be decomposed and parsed down into smaller (more affordable) impossible problems.
That’s gonna be politically incorrect, but maybe these vision things need to be done only with groups of people under certain age. Say, 30, give or take a few years ( I’m out of the range). There are many good reasons for that. First, something could actually happen as a result. Second, people speaking for their own destiny, not the others coming after them.
Hmm. I’ll jump on the ‘politically incorrect’ bandwagon: when I was <30 I didn’t trust anybody >30 (yep, that’s my generation).
Come to find out that now I’m >60 I have a slightly longer view of things and a better critical thinking.
Maybe I’m at the stage where I don’t trust anyone <30! What a turn around!