"Rand Simberg" wrote in message
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On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 07:50:50 GMT, in a place far, far away,
lid (John Savard) made the phosphor on
my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

Meanwhile unmanned missions continue to succeed spectacularly.

You just continue to engage in your own delusions, Greg.

Ah, yes. My psychic senses tell me that his deluded fantasies include
the names "Sojourner", "Spirit", and "Opportunity".

I may have oversnipped. I was really responding to this fantasy:

The most likely outcome in this time frame is that manned
spaceflight will shrink from farce to fantasy. The second
possibility is that it will continue to limp along, at the most
with a re-enactment of Apollo.

Is it his fantasy or his fear? It looks to like the later and it
seems all to likely. That I have the fear doesn't mean I
don't hope for things to get off the ground and on their
way to Mars and beyond.