On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 00:26:33 -0600, in a place far, far away, "Jorge
R. Frank" made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

and is a basis for
preferring NASA, when in fact the private sector hasn't yet even made
the attempt. There's in fact no reason to think they couldn't do it
better than NASA, if funded, given that NASA is hardly perfect.

I'm just pointing out the illogic of the basis of his preference.

Do not confuse his logic for mine.

I'm not.

I would like to give the private sector
a shot. But do not for one second assume that I believe that the private
sector has a better safety record than NASA.

I didn't claim they did. I just said that it was absurd to claim that
NASA had a better safety record than the private sector, since the
private sector has none at all. And it's even more absurd to claim
that therefore we should trust NASA more than the private sector,
which was George's weird position.