On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 13:30:53 -0400, in a place far, far away,
(Derek Lyons) made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

(Rand Simberg) wrote:

My thoughts on whether or not to fly Shuttle, and the cult of
astronaut worship:

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q...UxNjE5MjM1OTE=

You only made one error - but it's the same one most space cadets
make. You fail to realize the 99% of *all* exploration is tooling
around in circles with what amounts to 'science fair' equipment.

For some values of "exploration," perhaps. And even if one buys that
definition, most of it is done much more cost effectively.