Rand Simberg wrote:
On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 17:40:06 GMT, in a place far, far away, George
Evans made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

And this constant whining about no one gives us money has got to go.

It's not "whining." It's stating of a fact to point out how nonsensical your
argument is.

A business that whines about not getting money is a failure waiting to
happen.

Nobody is "whining."

I was simply *explaining* that it's nonsensical to claim that NASA is
better at doing something than someone else, when that someone else
hasn't been provided with any funding with which to do it. If they
had been given the money, and developed a bad track record, then you'd
have a point, but since that's not reality, it's nonsensical.

The only thing that NASA has shown itself to be "better" at so far is
getting large amounts of taxpayer dollars. We won't know if it's
"better" at anything else until someone else finds funding from some
source, and actually does some spaceflight with it, and we have an
actual basis of comparison.

Well we had better hope that the private sector does things better than
NASA or we'll never have commercial spaceflight. Period.