So far I've seen responses in four classes:
It'd cost too much.
Let's explore this idea.
What we've got now works, so why change?
I don't think it can be done.
First: How much will it cost? Do I have to do all the research myself
and bring the result to the racing community as a fait accompli? If
so, I'll do it, and will find out things like probably time to develop
a system, a realistic range of expected costs for R&D, design and
build, acquisition, operation, and maintenance, and whatever other
categories you folks can identify that need to be addressed. How do we
know that it'll cost too much when we don't know what's going to have
to be invented, what will have to be designed, what will have to be
bought?
I'll ask for input from those that are already working in this
direction, and I'll ask for help from interested bystanders that want
to help me do it. Heck, maybe I've stumbled onto my own idea that I
can sell to the timing world market and make a buck out of it -- and,
if all goes well, maybe I can afford to donate equipment/systems to the
land speed racing world. Don't tell me I can't do it until you can
prove it can't be done under any circumstances.
Second topic will follow in a second post so the too-long-message
gremlin doesn't get me.
Jon Wennerberg
Seldom Seen Slim Land Speed Racing
Marquette, Michigan
(that's 'way up north)
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