Past Perfect, Future Misleading

h (Rand Simberg) wrote in message . ..
On 29 Aug 2003 00:45:13 GMT, in a place far, far away,
(Al Jackson) made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to
indicate that:

(Rand Simberg) wrote in message . ..
I have some more commentary on the Gehman report, and why we should
not build "the" next generation launch system.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,95930,00.html


Past Perfect, Future Misleading


NASA plans to make continuing investments in “next generation
launch technology,” with the hope that those investments will
enable a decision by the end of this decade on what that next
generation launch vehicle should be. This is a worthy goal, and should
be pursued.


My concern is that .... you ... and many others seem to want to live
in the 19th century.

??

No, sorry, we didn't have the technology in the 19th century to do
space.

The World has changed, there should be no Orbital Space Plane, there
should be the 'International Orbital Space Plane', ....

Yes, right. Not bad enough to have a single launch system for the
nation--let's have one for the world!

As somebody said:

"The United States is the only country , on the face of the earth, to
go from Frontier to Decadence, without going through Enlightenment ."

Yes, somebody who was an ignorant idiot.

Again, your extremely well reasoned and elaborated comment is only
exceeded by your lightning quick response!