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On 23 Feb 2005 20:52:20 -0800, wrote:

sometimes the
people who make something fiscally possible are as important in the
overall scheme as the people who conceived or invented the idea in the
first place.

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Very true. We had a guest on our boat last week who was one of the
developers of the VacuFlush marine head. The original plan was to
market it to Boeing for the 747 but it turned out that Boeing already
had their, uhhh, waste removal removal design pretty much set in
concrete, and not about to change.

Failing to interest Boeing in this modern marvel, they turned to the
marine market on the assumption that a system which used less H2O per
flush would also be slower to fill holding tanks.