Rand Simberg ) wrote:
: On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:12:57 +0000 (UTC), in a place far, far away,
: (Eric Chomko) made the phosphor on my monitor
: glow in such a way as to indicate that:

: Rand Simberg ) wrote:
: : On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 17:03:21 +0000 (UTC), in a place far, far away,
: : (Greg Kuperberg) made the phosphor on
: : my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:
:
: : Anyway, to get back to space policy: If you want NASA to do anything
: : big and exciting in this decade, forget it.
:
: : That's true for any decade other than the 1960s.
:
: So Viking and Voyager were boring to you guys? The 1970s planetary probes
: don't rate? Man, I'd like to see what would have gotten you folks excited
: back then given that those two programs didn't rate on your scales.

: Lots of people going into space. Science is interesting, but not "big
: and exciting." There's more to life than science (something that NASA
: never seems to learn).

Of course there is but are they not in the business of science?

You ought to question how well the DOD, NOAA and NASA are going to get
along on NPOES, follow on to EOS.

Eric

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