Eric Chomko wrote:

The only blather here is in your brain! You can't grasp that the leaders
of your party are exactly who to blame based upon keeping the status quo
WRT funding of an inefficient manned space program. IOW, a blue state NASA
would never get away with running a manned space program like red state
NASA is currently doing. Where is Congress on this?

'My party'? Are you laboring under the misapprehension that I voted
for W? (Not that this has any relevance to whether NASA manned space
efforts are wasteful.)


: You clearly have serious neurotic ticks involving war and W. Do try
: to distinguish between your hallucinations and what I am actually saying.

You're never clear on what you're saying. You choose to be vague.

I'm crystal clear in my statements. You just have serious problems
reading and understanding.

: The military has space applications that are cost-justified. Recon
: sats, weather sats, communications, early warning, navigation, to name
: a few. Why should I consider space 'off-limits' to the military?

Perhaps because NASA was set up to be non-military by its very nature. Or
did you miss that part?

Um... what? Bizarre non sequitur there, Chomko.

: I can't think of anything in *manned* spaceflight that would be
: very useful to the military, and the military apparently can't see
: anything either.

At least not yet. So because there is no manned military application of
space, you're against manned spaceflight?

No.

Wait, before you start
questioning my logic, answer this: If in fact, you support civilian manned
spaceflight, are you simply against using public funds?

I consider use of private funds to be a matter for those who
own those funds. Personally, I am not inclined to invest
in this area. Those who consider this mistaken are welcome
to prove me wrong and become wealthy in the process.

As for public funds, I'm not against support of manned spaceflight
in principle, but in practice there doesn't seem to have been
a situation where it has made sense.

: Typical logic and integrity-free net slime...

Yes, Paul, you are close mineded, as well you should be, because you
simply have all the answers.

And the answers say you're full of ****, Chomko.

Paul