On Fri, 14 May 2004 14:05:46 -0700, Jim Weir wrote:

The point is the same point that Edmund Hillary and his small civilian band had
when they climbed Everest. Sure, Patton's Third Army could have done it by
sheer muscle power and expensive engineering, but Hillary did it with finesse.
[snip]
So far as I am concerned Rutan's brave little band has balls of brass for trying
it.

You do it...

because...

it is there.

Wrong guy. George Leigh Mallory said "because it is there", not
Edmund Hillary.

Mary

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Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer