On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:27:26 -0400, "jonathan"
wrote:

This is getting preposterous. Spending $5 Billion a year on space
science, not including Constellation spending, is *not* "trashing NASA
science" no matter how many times critics repeat the assertion.

Critics?
You mean NASA Advisory Council's science committee members right?

Yep. That's them. Boy, scientists can whine with the best of 'em.
"Wah! We didn't get a raise this year, so WE QUIT!"

CAPE CANAVERAL, Aug. 18 -- Three NASA advisers who spoke out against
budget cuts to the space agency's science programs turned in their
resignations this week, officials said Thursday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...081701929.html

That doesn't prove them right. $5 Billion a year isn't chump change.
It's more than ESA's entire budget. In fact, it pretty much equals
what every other country on Earth spends on space, combined. If these
whiny a-holes don't want it, I have serious doubts NASA can't find
someone else who does.

So did Boeing's. So did Northrop-Grumman's. So did Buffalo Wild
Wings'. So did CVS Pharmacies'... oh, wait...

Uh hum.... and if the head of CVS was married to the head of, oh say, the
....FDA?

Okay, Walgreen's doubled, too. They're all in on it I guess.
Must be easy for you, living in a world where everything is one big
Bush Conspiracy. Okay, so what's Buffalo Wild Wings' link to Shrub?

And you conveniently ignored that Boeing and N-G are making out great
too. Oh right, that doesn't fit your conspiracy theory...

Brian