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40th Anniversary of 2001:A Space Odyssey
Dave Michelson wrote:
Rand Simberg wrote: Hey, Dave, we should start a business selling tee-shirts saying "Derek Lyons called me a jackass." It would be a badge of honor. Indeed! It's likely that demand would outstrip supply, though. (I'm sure Derek is a great guy, but his posts would be much easier to take if he wasn't so down on *everything*. Even movie reviewers say nice things every now and then.) I'm down on everything? Do you even read what I write, or just kneejerk insults? The evidence supports the latter. (Considering you contribute almost nothing to these groups but insults to me.) D. -- Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh. http://derekl1963.livejournal.com/ -Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings. Oct 5th, 2004 JDL |
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40th Anniversary of 2001:A Space Odyssey
On Fri, 2 May 2008 23:34:05 -0400, "Scott Hedrick"
wrote: Remember, Star Trek got a shuttle because AMT foot the bill in exchange for the model rights. ....And you know the punchline to that joke, right? AMT designed the shuttlecraft, and the kit is one of the most inaccurate ones they ever did! OM -- ]=====================================[ ] OMBlog - http://www.io.com/~o_m/omworld [ ] Let's face it: Sometimes you *need* [ ] an obnoxious opinion in your day! [ ]=====================================[ |
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40th Anniversary of 2001:A Space Odyssey
On Fri, 2 May 2008 23:34:05 -0400, "Scott Hedrick"
wrote: And what the frack is up with WB's ****-poor marketing of B-5? ....Warners has always mishandled B5. The reasons have never been clear, but there's some fairly credible theories floating about that argue some Warner execs simply don't like JMS or the B5 fans because they're afraid of having to deal with "just another bunch of no-life, psychotic Trekkies" trying to influence how they run their end of Hollywood. If recent history has shown anything, the studio pervs in Hollyweird hate it when fans wind up making their decisions for them. They'd prefer it if the fans would simply accept whatever they dish out, crap or not, so they don't have to work so hard. OM -- ]=====================================[ ] OMBlog - http://www.io.com/~o_m/omworld [ ] Let's face it: Sometimes you *need* [ ] an obnoxious opinion in your day! [ ]=====================================[ |
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40th Anniversary of 2001:A Space Odyssey
Dave Michelson wrote:
I'm sure Derek is a great guy, but his posts would be much easier to take if he wasn't so down on *everything* Then again, a lot of others' posts would be easier to take if they didn't mistake the newsgroup for sci.space.cheerleading. In fact, maybe we'd be farther along in space if cheerleading hadn't taken the place of critical thought for so much of the last 50 years. |
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40th Anniversary of 2001:A Space Odyssey
Monte Davis wrote: I'm sure Derek is a great guy, but his posts would be much easier to take if he wasn't so down on *everything* Then again, a lot of others' posts would be easier to take if they didn't mistake the newsgroup for sci.space.cheerleading. In fact, maybe we'd be farther along in space if cheerleading hadn't taken the place of critical thought for so much of the last 50 years. We've accomplished spectacular things in relation to space exploitation since Apollo, and done it on a budget to boot. We've got two rovers crawling around on the surface of Mars....that's missions would have been considered fully successful if they survived 90 days... that now are into their fifth year of rolling around on Mars. Sure, manned exploration could do better than they could...but could it do it at such a knock-down cost over that long of a period of time? You might get a thousand times as much data back; but is it worth a thousand times the cost? Mars is fairly easy to get to via time and expense, versus the other major planets and moons in our solar system.. But it's also pretty boring.* Whatever else it has, it doesn't have flora or fauna that shows up on the pictures of the MERs on its surface, and that would show up elephants - much less calots - given the resolution of the imagery taken from orbit. If Europa where orbiting where Mars is...then it might be worth throwing time, effort, and treasure at to do a manned expedition to. * I'm really keen to see the surface results from the Phoenix lander: "What the _****_ do you mean: 'It's all dry ice'?" :-D |
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40th Anniversary of 2001:A Space Odyssey
"Monte Davis" wrote in message ... Dave Michelson wrote: I'm sure Derek is a great guy, but his posts would be much easier to take if he wasn't so down on *everything* Then again, a lot of others' posts would be easier to take if they didn't mistake the newsgroup for sci.space.cheerleading. In fact, maybe we'd be farther along in space if cheerleading hadn't taken the place of critical thought for so much of the last 50 years. I agree with this. I also think that the whole Ares I/Orion program is a disaster in the making. They're overweight and trying to deal with the SRB vibration problem at the same time. I think there is precious little chance that Ares I will be able to launch a lunar capable Orion. Hopefully the politicians will wise up and abort this Ares I/Orion fiasco well before it flies. Space station got redesigned several times to schedule and cost overruns, so I think history backs up this possible scenario. Jeff -- A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. -- Einstein |
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40th Anniversary of 2001:A Space Odyssey
On Fri, 09 May 2008 06:27:19 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote: If Europa where orbiting where Mars is...then it might be worth throwing time, effort, and treasure at to do a manned expedition to. ....Then again, were Europa where Mars is now, it would probably be far more liquid than ice, and we'd have skipped the Moon landings altogether for a fishing expedition. Jacques Cousteau as CDR, anyone? OM -- ]=====================================[ ] OMBlog - http://www.io.com/~o_m/omworld [ ] Let's face it: Sometimes you *need* [ ] an obnoxious opinion in your day! [ ]=====================================[ |
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40th Anniversary of 2001:A Space Odyssey
On Fri, 09 May 2008 10:02:28 GMT, Monte Davis
wrote: Then again, a lot of others' posts would be easier to take if they didn't mistake the newsgroup for sci.space.cheerleading. ....Excuse me, but which of us are trying to vicariously live out our lack of life through our kids' posting here? :-P OM -- ]=====================================[ ] OMBlog - http://www.io.com/~o_m/omworld [ ] Let's face it: Sometimes you *need* [ ] an obnoxious opinion in your day! [ ]=====================================[ |
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