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kentm@aix.rpi.edu (Michael V. Kent) and henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry
Spencer) respectively write:

> >...An optimist would say NASA has gotten out of the
> >megaproject mentality.  A pessimist....Henry?
>
> I'd say they're being slowly forced out of it because cost bloat has
> gotten so bad that Congress will no longer tolerate it.  They still
> see small projects as supplements to the megaprojects rather than
> replacements for them, though; it's only just starting to dawn on
> them that there won't be any more megaprojects.

I thought it was that the Congress-critters had so bloated themselves
with giga-projects that they no longer had time to think about
mega-projects, but that small projects were so far down in the noise
that once proposed no one would take the time required to oppose
them...

R Mark Chilenskas
Chilenskas@Office.wang.com