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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] But the percentage of space shuttle builders at Rosie level is not the same as the percentage of Liberty ship builders at that level. To get even a "series production" shuttle off the air, you need academically trained people to turn most of the screws and solder most of the wires, or at least one academician to look over every five riveters' shoulders. The same is true to a lesser degree of aircraft, which are a bit closer to Liberty ships but not quite there yet. A Liberty can stall in mid-ocean and await repairs. An Airbus stalling in mid-ocean won't be good publicity. It's not that aircraft are newer tech - it's that aircraft are more demanding tech. And there's no indication that a greater percentage of world population could build aircraft today than fifty years ago, despite advances in training and social conditions. (Indeed, there are *more* poor and uneducated today, relatively and absolutely speaking. Will their eradication, one way or other, markedly alter things in the Trek universe?) We simply can't tell whether a starship will be built by a slightly retarded button-pusher kid who got this easiest of all jobs as a sort of charity, or by a team of Wesleys who swim in cold sweat 24 hours a day to get the job done. Granted, TNG tech *theoretically* makes it possible that once a ship is designed, building her is a no-brainer. But the big TNG ships still are full of bugs, and moreover appear to be individuals with different bugs on different ships. There may be a need for a hands-on, design-as-you-build approach, which simply can't be handled by the majority of your population. Not today, not yesterday, and in all likelihood not tomorrow, either. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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