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On 14 Nov 2005 07:55:29 -0800, in a place far, far away,
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: Pete Lynn wrote: We have to reasonably estimate a dollar value for this intangible wealth return if we are to make rational investment decisions. Really? What's the dollar value of the return from, say, the NEA If you mean National Education Association, it's a net negative. the DOEducation A vast destroyer of wealth. the USAF, the US Army These have a quite high return, the State Department? Probably negative on balance. |
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On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:33:52 GMT, in a place far, far away, Scott
Lowther made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: So long as space is demonstrated to be hard and inaccessible, except to the select few, the young will continue to seek careers in other more exciting fields. Ah. So you assume that ESAS will send out hit teams to Scaled Composites and XCOR and Space-X to whack those trying on thier own? It doesn't have to. It does enough damage as it is. |
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Jeff Findley wrote: Typical aerospace engineer. Fixated on mass. ;-) Seriously though, it's not the mass that counts, but what you do with it. :-) Yeah, the angle of the dangle equals the mass of the....excuse me, my mind wandered... :-) Pat |
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Jeff Findley wrote:
I'll bet the typical US taxpayer could name more bajillionares than they could astronauts. Probably. But then, when was the last time an astronaut did something? -- "The only thing that galls me about someone burning the American flag is how unoriginal it is. I mean if you're going to pull the Freedom-of-speech card, don't be a hack, come up with something interesting. Fashion Old Glory into a wisecracking puppet and blister the system with a scathing ventriloquism act, or better yet, drape the flag over your head and desecrate it with a large caliber bullet hole." Dennis Miller |
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On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 14:11:52 GMT, in a place far, far away, Fred J.
McCall made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: :Unfortunately, Apollo 2.0 does none of that. There is some lip service :being paid to commercial resupply of ISS, but the entire foundation of :Apollo 2.0 is NASA, right down to the launch vehicles and launch facilities. Nothing stops anyone else from buying the same (or other) vehicles and sending people. Other than the fact that they're insanely expensive, that is. No one other than a government would go to the moon the way that NASA has chosen to do it. |
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On 10 Nov 2005 09:21:03 -0800, in a place far, far away,
" made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: What's need now is not an improvement in performance - which comes from giant research programs - but improvements in cost, reliability and maintainability... which comes from *experience.* Which won't come from flying giant vehicles two or three times a year. |
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On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 18:24:35 +0000 (UTC), in a place far, far away,
(Eric Chomko) made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: : It's not too early for NASA to get out of the launch vehicle business. Here is a question for you. If NASA were to pull out of the launch payload business, then would there be enough customer revenue to sustain a commercial launch vehicle business? NASA currently buys very few commercial launches. The vast majority are commercial customers or DoD. |
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Scott Lowther wrote: I'll bet the typical US taxpayer could name more bajillionares than they could astronauts. Probably. But then, when was the last time an astronaut did something? http://www.csicop.org/articles/20021018-aldrin/ Pat |
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