"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
news:NvudnWji5sejEYvVnZ2dnUVZ_gadnZ2d@northdakotat elephone...
Good sized article:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/?cid=5412
He's ****ed off the Russians again, who are hinting he wants to destroy the
cooperation over the ISS.
Comrades! James Oberg - Trotskyite Wrecker! :-)

Pat


Well, it's nice to see journalism is based on facts and
reliable sources these days.



"Moscow space officials who have essentially prejudged ....."


Who prejudged?


"They have declared, at the highest level......."


Oh! They!


"....rumors began circling the planet"


Thank god for rumors!


".....so the stories went."


Stories told by who?


"Also, NASA engineers in Houston whispered.....


Shhhh! Quiet, maybe he'll whisper to us the sources of the ...whispers!


"The remaining combined modules would hit the air sideways or even nose
forward, where heat shielding was much thinner. The delicate
parachutes are located here, and any damage to them or their lines
could have doomed the crew."


Says who? Or was this one of those whispers carried by another rumor?


"Moscow rumor mill:"


At last, now the article gets down to the real solid facts.....


"A Russian source first broke these stories"


Whathisname again?


"The exterior part of the pressure equalization valve was burnt,'
he continued."


Who is 'he'?



"he explained"

Oh



"he concluded"


Him again?


'The information which was published with a reference to an
unnamed and highly incompetent source was nothing but
a dirty trick."


Now I understand!



" ....but provided no supportive evidence of this
interpretation."


I'm astonished!!!



" Why should somebody lie?"


Who is somebody? Who is lying?



"Head of the Russian Space Agency Anatoliy Perminov agreed:"
'If we rush into panic and write what did not take place,
this is wrong, and this will not come to anything good."


At last a name.


"Moscow media quoted another Russian space source"


At last, some facts!


"who was at the landing site, who called the alarmist media
reports 'nonsense''


Reports of nonsense are in fact nonsense.



"So this attempted refutation of the alarmist 'leak' seems
itself bogus."


Deep-cover-anti-alarmist-agenda-driven-counter-rumors?


"Well, maybe."


No, really, I give up.


"....the mystery remains as to why"


After all these facts, how could there be any mysteries?


" Claims supposedly originating from space workers"


Supposedly! Which space workers?
Let's try to get back to the facts.



"For example, last December 27, rumors about the resignation
(or firing) of Perminov briefly circulated."


Oh no, not more rumors? But lets get the facts straight about these rumors.
These rumors did not circulate the planet, but lived only 'briefly'.



"Similarly, when early last February there were rumors that..."


Everyone knows a pile of rumors equals one fact.



"In a society that tolerates such snap judgments and conspiracy
thinking at the highest level, it's difficult to expect...."




Who is lecturing who about rumors???



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