Squabbles at The Planetary Society

Harrison Schmitt jumps ship over new Mars/asteroids agenda:
http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/20..._nac_chai.html

Pat

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
dakotatelephone...
Harrison Schmitt jumps ship over new Mars/asteroids agenda:
http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/20..._nac_chai.html



I love this line....


"You know as well as I, the "global warming scare" is being used
as a political tool to increase government control over American
lives, incomes and decision making. It has no place in the
Society's activities."


Studying the climate of Earth from space has no business in our
space policy???

A person like this shouldn't be given the responsibility of running
an ice cream stand. Why should we care about his opinion?








Pat

On Nov 18, 8:27 pm, "jonathan" wrote:

I love this line....

"You know as well as I, the "global warming scare" is being used
as a political tool to increase government control over American
lives, incomes and decision making. It has no place in the
Society's activities."

Studying the climate of Earth from space has no business in our
space policy???

No, politicians shouldn't use an emotional bullet point to increase
government control.

A person like this shouldn't be given the responsibility of running
an ice cream stand. Why should we care about his opinion?

I've always said that about politicians.

On Nov 18, 8:27*pm, "jonathan" wrote:
"Pat Flannery" wrote in message

dakotatelephone...

Harrison Schmitt jumps ship over new Mars/asteroids agenda:
http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/20..._nac_chai.html

I love this line....

"You know as well as I, the "global warming scare" is being used
as a political tool to increase government control over American
lives, incomes and decision making. It has no place in the
Society's activities."

Studying the climate of Earth from space has no business in our
space policy???

A person like this shouldn't be given the responsibility of running
an ice cream stand. Why should we care about his opinion?


It is almost as if he is jealous that spacecraft are being used for
Earth observation and that Global Warming is simply an excuse use to
take dollars away from his more lofty goal of other planetary
exploration.

Yep people like that are more than irresponsible.

On Nov 18, 9:07*pm, " wrote:
On Nov 18, 8:27 pm, "jonathan" wrote:



I love this line....

"You know as well as I, the "global warming scare" is being used
as a political tool to increase government control over American
lives, incomes and decision making. It has no place in the
Society's activities."

Studying the climate of Earth from space has no business in our
space policy???

No, politicians shouldn't use an emotional bullet point to increase
government control.

Only problem is is that other politicians counter 180 degrees and do
nothing where something (not hysteria) should be done.


A person like this shouldn't be given the responsibility of running
an ice cream stand. Why should we care about his opinion?

I've always said that about politicians.

Politicians should NOT make scientific decisions.

Eric Chomko wrote:
I've always said that about politicians.


Politicians should NOT make scientific decisions.


Based on the Texas legislature, who once passed a law that Pi equaled 3.0.
Meanwhile, back in Texas:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/..._Rt2AD94HNPAG0
Yup, what goes around comes around, doesn't it? :-D

Pat

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:59:14 -0600, in a place far, far away, Pat
Flannery made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:



Eric Chomko wrote:
I've always said that about politicians.


Politicians should NOT make scientific decisions.


Based on the Texas legislature, who once passed a law that Pi equaled 3.0.

That never happened.

On Nov 19, 12:25*pm, (Rand Simberg)
wrote:

Based on the Texas legislature, who once passed a law that Pi equaled 3.0.

Damien Valentine wrote:
On Nov 19, 12:25 pm, (Rand Simberg)
wrote:

Based on the Texas legislature, who once passed a law that Pi equaled 3.0.
That never happened.

Mr. Simberg is right, and it never happened in Alabama or Tennesee
either. See Snopes for details.

Clearly 3.0 is too low. 3.2 is a better approximation :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:15:16 -0800 (PST), in a place far, far away,
Damien Valentine made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:

On Nov 19, 12:25*pm, (Rand Simberg)
wrote:

Based on the Texas legislature, who once passed a law that Pi equaled 3.0.

That never happened.

Mr. Simberg is right, and it never happened in Alabama or Tennesee
either. See Snopes for details.

I think that the closest any state ever came to it was Indiana.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill

But as it points out, even then it wasn't as simple as declaring pi
three.