Late on updates*
I should have posted this days ago, but I’ve had so much work these days that it wasn’t possible to do it. Fortunately I have finished my work for today and have some free time.
In my opinion, the talk at the Station of Desamparados went more or less fine. Why? Because I prolonged myself one hour! That goes against anything I believe regarding presentations.
Anyhow, I wasn’t asked the question regarding airplanes and the Space Elevator, but one person asked me why we don’t invest that money into the poor. I explained him that we were a private company and that our responsibility with society was the generation of wealth. The welfare of the citizens of the country was a task managed by governments.
It seems that I didn’t explain myself good enough because he made the same question. I explained again, but with more detail. At the end, he understood. He even gave me a hand shake when the presentation finished.
But the nicest thing about the exposition was the following excerpt from an email that a friend, Daniel Salvo, sent. It was the first time he heard me exposing about the Space Elevator:
“Mac, if the people at your company used you as a presenter, you would get the financing in no time”.
Gee, it seems that after four years of this I’ve started to get a grip on this.
*This entry was originally posted in Liftport’s blog.