[EVA] Rei's Origins (repost)

[Brian Swetland]

[Greg Muir <gregmuir at adelphia.net>]
> 
> I do like the way they portray the magnitude of an effort such as the E
> project, though. You do not slap something like this together with a
> scientist and a cute assistant. For something like E, it would resemble the
> frickin' Apollo Program, which they borrowed from right down to mission
> control. ;)

And perhaps the Manhattan Project too ... Project E seems to be a very, 
very need-to-know sort of thing.  I suspect few of the apparently large 
number of people NERV employed had any idea what was going on, save that
it was "for the good of mankind" or somesuch.

Brian