Ladewig
14th January 2004, 01:46 PM
Petroleum News (http://www.petroleumnews.com/pnarch/010228-49.html)
Briggs said NASA has been working with Halliburton, Shell, Baker-Hughes and the Los Alamos National Laboratory to identify drilling technologies that might work on Mars.
[snip]
Halliburton and Baker-Hughes are working on some very advanced systems, Briggs said, some so advanced they aren’t willing to talk much about them. He said the NASA Ames Center relies on working with people in the industry who “really understand the problems and make us face up to the realities …
I thought turning elections over to voting machine companies who won't let even the government look at the program code and algorithms was a bad idea, but then again if there were an insurmountable problem, at least the government could seize the machines and have a look at them. If the double secret, proprietary stuff is going on a few 100 million miles away, then nobody can check on whether the taxpayer is getting shafted. C'est la guerre.
Briggs said NASA has been working with Halliburton, Shell, Baker-Hughes and the Los Alamos National Laboratory to identify drilling technologies that might work on Mars.
[snip]
Halliburton and Baker-Hughes are working on some very advanced systems, Briggs said, some so advanced they aren’t willing to talk much about them. He said the NASA Ames Center relies on working with people in the industry who “really understand the problems and make us face up to the realities …
I thought turning elections over to voting machine companies who won't let even the government look at the program code and algorithms was a bad idea, but then again if there were an insurmountable problem, at least the government could seize the machines and have a look at them. If the double secret, proprietary stuff is going on a few 100 million miles away, then nobody can check on whether the taxpayer is getting shafted. C'est la guerre.