On Nov 19, 10:29*am, Quadibloc wrote:
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.

Only after I pointed out his errors, did he try some spin control.

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...

You used quite a few weasel words in that phrase, but there really
isn't any actual evidence to support his claim is there?

does _not_ mean he is
supporting them, or trying to give to them the credit for NASA's
efforts.

When he uses phrases such as "They may even provide a service," one
might logically conclude that he supports their actions.

This kind of overly vehement and overly ideological reaction
only serves to make you look like an unreasonable person,

LOL ! Ideological reaction? Pointing out that the RTGs were already
well-designed is ideological?

excessively
driven by politics,

You'll have to tell us how politics fits into this.

and thus diminishing your credibility.

You have no credibility at all.

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.

OK, now you somehow drifted over to the subject of communism.
Americans were familiar with the evils of communism before JFK, and
were not about to mistake it for some "imaginary bogeyman."