Some internal pleasant thought, not to be waved-around or gloated... often a small victory of some sort.
In this case, myself and various kindred souls had not only won that battle, its existence is now unremarkable. We've become the Dominant Paradigm (tm *). No one would nowadays seriously propose designing a human-crewed spacecraft now without an internal data communications network, and some kind of filtered link to Earth... but in 1992 that was controversial.
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Re: Quiet smiles
Date: 2002-10-05 06:13 pm (UTC)In this case, myself and various kindred souls had not only won that battle, its existence is now unremarkable. We've become the Dominant Paradigm (tm *). No one would nowadays seriously propose designing a human-crewed spacecraft now without an internal data communications network, and some kind of filtered link to Earth... but in 1992 that was controversial.