Do you, like me, find yourself disillusioned by all the stuff you read about the future of space travel? This has been bothering me for well over 2 decades, but I only recently figured out why. Basically it is that:

• everyone involved seems to be an "aerospace professional"
• these "aerospace professionals" all work for big Government contractors
• they all assume that Government not only will but should run things
• they seem more interested in creating "reports" and "proposals" for each other to read and comment on than actually getting up off their overpaid asses and making it happen, and
• they are all statists, collectivists, centralists - i.e. bureaucrats

I really don't think any of them expect to actually go out on the High Frontier themselves, nor that they would have what it takes to survive Out There. The qualities needed are sorely lacking in the academics and other PhDs who populate the "Space Movement," mainly due to class, but also to sheer mental inertia. To be blunt, anyone who couldn't handle theirself on the street in Harlem will not be able to handle their self in space, and assuming that what you've always had will be what you'll always have is sheer laziness.

That's why I've dedicated this webpage to Busting Your Assumptions ...

Maybe you should start with ROCKETS WON'T WORK.

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