In message , Pat Flannery
writes


Jorge R. Frank wrote:

Gee, if we only knew in advance which spacecraft would succeed and
which would fail, then we could only fund the successful ones and save
the money!




At least they _say_ it's dead....but now that the stealth cover has
extended itself, the ion engines have kicked in, and the tiny 5 mm
recoilless machine gun has been armed....well...let's just say that the
owners of any satellites broadcasting Al-Jazeera might want to check up
on their insurance status... ;-)

Quite so. One wouldn't want to see both sides of a story.
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