On Nov 19, 3:18*am, wrote:
On Nov 19, 1:02*am, Chris L Peterson wrote:
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 19:56:30 -0800 (PST), wrote:

You suggested that good design was inspired by the protests.

That is not what I said, and it's not what I meant.

"They may even provide a service, by
providing some pressure that ensures these things really are designed
to
survive a launch failure."

How shall we interpret your comment?

His post shows that he was in substantive agreement with you - that
the protests were misguided, and NASA's design of RTGs for space was
adequate.

Simply because he dared to speculate in an aside that these
protestors, ill-founded though their actions may have been, might
still have at least provided the benefit of encouraging some small
additional measure of caution on NASA's part... does _not_ mean he is
supporting them, or trying to give to them the credit for NASA's
efforts. This kind of overly vehement and overly ideological reaction
only serves to make you look like an unreasonable person, excessively
driven by politics, and thus diminishing your credibility.

That is not the way to win the fight against those who want to tear
down America. Moderates like J.F.K. made Americans aware of how evil
Communism was; had it been left to Joe McCarthy and the John Birch
Society, far too many people would have mistakenly thought Communism
was just an imaginary bogeyman until it was too late.

John Savard