snidely wrote:

wrote:


Keep in mind: many of those who want ESAS trashed want NASA to revert
to NACA-esque "assitance only." Which means NASA wouldn't be doing
*any* such space probes. Only a small amount of research to help
companies that wanted to make their own probes.



Yes, there is that extreme...just as there is also a range of Christian
views with Pat Robertson off on one edge, and different Republican
viewpoints, and Maoists that the PRC considers extreme.

But if you want NASA to contribute solid science of any sort, then ESAS
is a threat.


In much the same way that Apollo threatened science?


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"The only thing that galls me about someone burning the American flag is how unoriginal it is. I mean if you're going to pull the Freedom-of-speech card, don't be a hack, come up with something interesting. Fashion Old Glory into a wisecracking puppet and blister the system with a scathing ventriloquism act, or better yet, drape the flag over your head and desecrate it with a large caliber bullet hole." Dennis Miller