"Paul F. Dietz" wrote:

Eric Chomko wrote:
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.

Though I am not necessarily in full agreement with Paul's arguments,
I'll chime in here to affirm that his posting style is a model of
clarity. I suspect that Eric's problems with him are mostly from
assuming a context which does not apply. Apparently, paranoia is not
conducive to comprehension.

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.

As it happens, this is one of those "not in full agreement" bits. I
think flights of United States astronauts made plenty of sense in the
context of the Space Race, which itself was reasonable in the larger
context of the Cold War.

But those contexts are gone, and manned spaceflight as a government
project no longer has that justification. As in any race, once someone
has won, it makes little sense to keep running. It should have been
industry's turn to drive a long time ago.