Alan Anderson ) wrote:
: "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.

You lack the credentials, intellect and wit to call me paranoid.

: 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.

Good, you are what we peaceniks for space, refer to as useful idiots in
selling the notion to the politicians.

: 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.

So, you can't be convinced that the Chinese mean business with their two
flights to the point we need another space race? They're calling us out,
man! I think you need a lesson from Satchel Page and looking over one's
shoulder.

Eric