Originally Posted by
artyhug
Not aimed at anyone in particular, more a musing, but the argument that it isn’t cheap or easy and therefore shouldn’t be considered is mystifying to me.
Without aiming to beat expensive and difficult challenges little if anything would have been achieved by the human race.
No agricultural revolution, no industrial revolution, no technological revolution.
it confuses me even more when it is wielded by allegedly ‘experienced’ individuals. The self same individuals who have spent a lifetime utilising the success stories from others struggles to overcome difficult and expensive problems.
Naturally there are legion failures to accompany every success but without trying we will never succeed at anything.
I'm sure that the aircraft designers in 1946 looking at B35/46 for a four engined bomber to fly at 500Kts and at least 55,000 ft were perplexed by the enormity of the task. And they then built it. Or three in fact. Sometimes one has to be bold.
The question is whether all this zero carbon stuff is nonsense and a complete waste of time.