On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 09:56:04 +0100, in a place far, far away, "Henk
Boonsma" made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

the U.S. space program can't afford another fatal accident.

Nonsense.

If that's true, we've no hope of becoming a spacefaring species. Or
at least nation.