++> Inspired by a Keith Knapp response to Mark Bloss
 ++> on "Existence Exists"
 
 MB> It's interesting you believe that we can get "close enough" without
 MB> the ideal of perfecting being something to which we use to gauge
 MB> "close enough" in the first place!  It is astounding actually; that
 MB> any person would assume we can grasp perfection - but we must
 MB> know of its existence; for all our getting "close enough" to it.
 
 KK> Your ideas are nice, but whn NASA has to spend $650 million on a
 KK> launch, they don't fuck around.  In the real world there is no
 KK> such thing as perfection.  You just do the best that you can.
 
 KK> In the space flight biz, people die horribly because of slight
 KK> miscalculations.  It's easy to talk about abstractions like
 KK> 'perfection,' but the people who make the ships fly are more
 KK> interested in getting it right.
 
 KK> "Perfection" may be a lovely concept in philosophy or theology,
 KK> but in science or technology the only important idea is making
 KK> it work.  No Shuttle launch has ever achieved a "perfect" orbit,
 
     At first I took issue with Mark, but then came to realize that
     the term "perfection" only reflects your above philosophy-theology
     comment, or perhaps even more, as an exploratory measuring tool.
     A wonderful unattainable image or goal, it fits into that twilight
     of the imagination that I believe helps fuel what we are to be;
     and where we are going.  We have enough terms to cover rightness
     or adequacy, so that we can leave perfection as "special"-
                     .............dreaming the impossible dream......!
 
                              @@ ... Dave
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