mike harper on Dan Davies - "Back of Mind"

This is fun!!! Back in the day when NASA was more like a university than a business, there were lectures about aeronautical and other subjects us lazy good for nothing drones could attend. One that sticks in the peabrain was a talk by a group that wanted to build a STOL port in the East River. they foolishly tried to gain community support by holding meetings with the impacted community. The response, of course, was NFW!!! In discussions with the residents, they found that there was nothing anyone could say that would gain their permission to do anything. They had been F'd over so many times, think Robert Moses, that they did not believe anything anyone said.