He seems to get away with a lot of this stuff because few people are willing to challenge him on it. Probably because he comes off as not really caring and they doubt it would make any different. This is a man who demands the space community “police” itself and make anyone who dissents “unwelcome.”

This is correct. The pyramids were not built sequentially; there was significant overlap when two pyramids were being built at once. We know this because, when one pyramid failed and collapsed (they are actually quite complex structures; a simple pile of stone would collapse and flow of its own weight), the engineers immediately reduced the angle of another pyramid then under construction, creating the “bent” pyramid.

We know, or at least strongly suspect, that the pyramids were built by willing labor because Egypt did not have a standing army at the time the largest ones were built.

— Donald

If you don’t subscribe to this view, then Griffin’s other comments to the effect that new technologies only emerge from a government bureaucracy under pain of death apply.

A happy medium is the pyramids, which best evidence suggests were built by competing teams who were not slaves. (#)

Either way, Griffin is a very smart guy, though not a cheerleader, as imfamously observed by congress. It is difficult to judge him without knowing his political constraints.

(#) I dare not suggest not under cost plus contracting.

Michael Griffin is the worst administrator of NASA ever, and has done more damage to the reputation of NASA than any other administrator in US history.

Apollo was one of the only good things that happened to America in the 60s and 70s, and possies like you couldn’t take down a sitting US president or overturn the established authority of the United States of America if your life depended on it, which it demonstrably does right now.

Gtow some balls, woman.