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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 7766249" data-attributes="member: 177">Yes it is.&nbsp; It is right in the name, &quot;terraforming&quot; - forming it into Terra!&nbsp; Whether the plan has to change, and whether the goal is set are not at all the same thing.We all play role playing games.&nbsp; You walk into a big battle with a plan.&nbsp; It quickly falls apart.&nbsp; But the goal is still to make the BBEG kick the bucket.We have slid from &quot;terraforming&quot; to &quot;colonization&quot;.&nbsp; Those are *NOT* the same thing - you can colonize without terraforming, but all your colonists have to stay inside or in space suits.&nbsp; Which one do you want to discuss?Hardly.&nbsp; There's nothing &quot;random&quot; about the development of the ISS.&nbsp; If nothing else, NASA is far too risk averse to be part of the most massive construction project in space, the vast majority of which was done using NASA's Space Shuttle, the most expensive and complex machine built by humankind at the time, if it were &quot;random&quot;.&nbsp; Good gosh, do I have to go into the differences between Waterfall and Agile management, and show how neither one of them is random?&nbsp; I don't think anyone wants that.&nbsp; Let me try to keep it to saying - just because plans change over time, does not make the changes &quot;random&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 7766249, member: 177"] Yes it is. It is right in the name, "[I]terraforming[/I]" - forming it into Terra! Whether the plan has to change, and whether the goal is set are not at all the same thing. We all play role playing games. You walk into a big battle with a plan. It quickly falls apart. But [I]the goal[/I] is still to make the BBEG kick the bucket. We have slid from "terraforming" to "colonization". Those are *NOT* the same thing - you can colonize without terraforming, but all your colonists have to stay inside or in space suits. Which one do you want to discuss? Hardly. There's nothing "random" about the development of the ISS. If nothing else, NASA is far too risk averse to be part of the most massive construction project in space, the vast majority of which was done using NASA's Space Shuttle, the most expensive and complex machine built by humankind at the time, if it were "random". Good gosh, do I have to go into the differences between Waterfall and Agile management, and show how neither one of them is random? I don't think anyone wants that. Let me try to keep it to saying - just because plans change over time, does not make the changes "random". [/QUOTE]

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