Hammer time - exactly how long does it take to build a starport in GT?
Alex Goodwin
(10 Nov 2014 02:51 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Hammer time - exactly how long does it take to build a starport in GT?
Ian Whitchurch
(10 Nov 2014 03:38 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Hammer time - exactly how long does it take to build a starport in GT?
Alex Goodwin
(10 Nov 2014 05:08 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Hammer time - exactly how long does it take to build a starport in GT?
Ian Whitchurch
(10 Nov 2014 05:53 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Hammer time - exactly how long does it take to build a starport in GT?
Bruce Johnson
(10 Nov 2014 18:25 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Hammer time - exactly how long does it take to build a starport in GT?
Grimmund
(10 Nov 2014 14:40 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Hammer time - exactly how long does it take to build a starport in GT? Jeffrey Schwartz (10 Nov 2014 14:46 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Hammer time - exactly how long does it take to build a starport in GT?
Alex Goodwin
(10 Nov 2014 15:13 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Hammer time - exactly how long does it take to build a starport in GT? Jeffrey Schwartz 10 Nov 2014 14:45 UTC
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Grimmund <grimmund@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 9:38 PM, Ian Whitchurch <ian.whitchurch@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Using either "Interesting local geology" or "Corrupt local contractors" to >> explain the apparent 20% cost overruns would be my favorite answers. > > The usual reason for cost overruns is design changes. > > Someone (or a committee) accepts the initial design, and then as work > progresses, people notice things they don't like about the initial > design. > > > "What? The perimiter berm is only 4 meters? Local spec is 5 meters. > It'll have to be higher." > > "Well, the Imperial spec is 4 meters...." > > "Yeah, but the locals require 5. " > > "That should have been caught in the review." > > "Whoops. Locals must have been snoozing." > Or, worse, the other way around.... "We have to cut off a whole meter of crystaliron reinforced permacrete ?" "Yeah, and make sure the top is even, the locals have some kind of rule about it."