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Old March 12th 08, 05:03 PM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.space.station,sci.space.shuttle,sci.space.history
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Default Military vs Civilian Orbital Laboratories, Vehicles, and Crews

On Mar 12, 12:01*pm, (Rand Simberg)
wrote:
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:52:48 -0700 (PDT), in a place far, far away,
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such
a way as to indicate that:

On Mar 12, 8:28 am, wrote:
The Shuttle got funded,
but not without getting a huge makeover by the Airforce that
dramatically increased development cost with wings engines and tiles
it didn't really need and the Army, that mandated SRBs which were
dangerous and low performing, in lieu of a fully reusable first stage,
increased operating costs.


Among with the other crazy non existent crap in your rant,


The Army had nothing to do with the Shuttle


Mook seems to be going more and more over the deep end in recent
years. *Be careful. *If you disagree with him, he'll call you evil.


That's a lie Rand.

Evil is a perfectly legitimate concept.

I only call those things evil that may be any reasonable definition
might be defined by a reasonable person AS evil.

For example, someone who says that the poor and destitute of this
world should be denied any and all hope for a better life. That's a
pernicicous statement. When one adds that the rationale for this
denial of hope because they MIGHT be inspired to improve their
position. That's a shocking statement. Then when this person adds
their final reasoning, they support the previous two statements
because success MIGHT cause those in a superior position to have to
work harder to maintain their position.

That's evil Rand. Any person who subscribes to this view can rightly
be termed to BE evil.

I mean, apply that logic to your family. You would enslave a family
member and then deny them even the HOPE of a better life because the
MIGHT want to improve their position and that MIGHT adversely affect
any benefit you MIGHT get from their enslavement? wow.

shrug

It that isn't evil, what is?