Agreed Henry, on all counts,
A happy, prosperous and Blessed New Year to all,
Ken
On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 1:21 PM Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 2 Jan 2021, Dr Edward Jones wrote:
...Is this question [radiation issues for human spaceflight] off-topic
on aRocket. Please refresh me (the ignorant) on the ground rules for
posting to this "amateur rocketry" group list. Are topics related only
to commercial, non-amateur rocketry off-limits? Thanks.
We've never had official, formal ground rules, that I know of. The
boundary between amateur rocketry and entrepreneurial rocketry is
particularly fuzzy, as witness groups which straddle the boundary, e.g.
the original Armadillo Aerospace. Probably the best rule is that the
group is primarily about *hands-on* rocketry, actually designing and
building things.
There are some ambitious/crazy :-) people in the amateur/entrepreneurial
rocketry world, and human spaceflight in particular isn't categorically
ruled out. And analyzing how the Big Boys do things can be relevant to
the Little Guys too. But spaceflight as a spectator sport (e.g. cheering
for NASA, or even SpaceX) *is* off-topic.
Discussions do wander, and brief notes about things that are marginal but
potentially of interest don't seem unreasonable. Occasional digressions
are best just tolerated unless they get really lengthy. But in the spirit
of New Year's resolutions :-), let's all try a little harder to keep
things focused.
Henry