Re: Scope of TMP

[Rick Stevens <sirowen@ne.infi.net>]

At 12:35 AM 4/27/97 -0800, you wrote:
>There has been a lot of talk about railway and aircraft assets and
>wanting to include a many number of things into the scope of the MP.

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>"Building a convincing argument from the future, he and the council
>structrued an organization dedicated to the continual survival of the
>human race beyond destruction." (TM 1-1)

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>The real asset in any adventure isn't equipment anyway (although it's
>really handy to have around) it's knowlege.  

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>It's not how much stuff you have to start with, it's what you do with
>what you have. 

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>Opinion: The placement of hundreds of teams across the U.S. with a Prime
>Base (I use two, one East U.S., one West U.S.) men, material, boltholes,
>bases, etc., etc., etc., would tax the resources of Microsoft. 

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Jerry,
        Microsoft couldn't provide a small chunk of what some of the folks
around here consider OK for the Project. Others forget that even with
advanced knowlege and lots of investments, the cost is still outside the
range of everything except the spending budget of a Major Economic Power. 
        Nope, I'm with you. Keep the Project small. Keep the teams a little
hungry and let them be heroes and not cogs in the machine. Don't let the
Project become an ARMY. That was never its intent and certainly not within
its budget in any event.

-NOTE- For those who have argued that spreading out the cost of a HUGE
Morrow Project over the years would make it feasible, please consider the
Soviet Union. The Soviet Union had resources the Project can never even
dream of, yet it collapsed under the strain of a military budget it could
not afford. 
        I realize the difference in scope of the Soviet Union's military
might as compared to the Projects' (At least for some of you. The Project as
seen by others here could give the old USSR a run for its money if the
terrain and surprise factors were right, evident in the fact that some of
the versions of the Project I've seen on this list have MORE arms than the
Afghanis did) But the micro-economics of the situations are similar.







Rick Stevens

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