Current Projects chat and miscellany

"It made perfectly good sense as a dick waving contest between Kennedy and Хрущёв, and a fair amount of sense as a speculative technology project with prospective payback in commercial spin-offs. Which of these is your project?"

None of the above good Sir, none of the above. Actually there is a certain element of dick waving involved, and needless to say we had to come up with something crazy to justify the funding, but other than that the similarities are few and far between.

*Manned space missions are all about funding, but you already know that.