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On Jan 8, 8:27*pm, OM wrote:
On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:05:48 GMT, (Rand

Simberg) wrote:
You are sounding as stupid as Chomko now.

...Don't insult Chumpko like that, Rand. He's igorance in a
definitiona all by himself. He's a squarehead as opposed to
"jonathan's" pinhead.

Side note: Chumpko's already been exposed thanks to those photos we
found years ago from his HS reunion, showing what a literal square
head he has. Art Clokey couldn't have sculpted it any squarer!

My high school reunion pictures outted me? This is rich! You're the
self-admitted journalist wannabe.

Oh, and I'd rather have a square head than a round belly like yours...
haha

Eric


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On Jan 6, 8:39*am, (Rand Simberg) wrote:
On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 20:14:03 -0800 (PST), in a place far, far away,
Matt made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such
a way as to indicate that:





The headlines in other publications have gotten really crazy: "Report:
Obama May Merge NASA, Pentagon Space Programs" on Fox News. There are
even more sensational examples... none of them with a basis in
reality.

It all started with this Bloomberg item saying the Obama
administration might turn the mission of launching NASA's Orion
capsule from the planned Ares I over to "military rockets" - the Atlas
or Delta EELVs - " because military rockets may be cheaper and ready
sooner than the space agency's planned launch vehicle." Other outlets
picked up on Bloomberg and took it to the point of alleging a "merger"
without ever noticing the premise was wrong and that no merger is even
being contemplated.

The Bloomberg story as spectacularly uninformed. The Atlas and Delta
EELVs are not purely military rockets: NASA can purchase them
commercially from United Launch Alliance (ULA) any time they want.
EELVs carry commercial satellites and NASA payloads like the GOES
series. What NASA would have to pay ULA to do is build a man-rated
version, which the Pentagon has no interest in. It's also not clear
where NASA and DoD ties need to be closer: they cooperate every day on
everything from range operations to the significant military support
to shuttle launches to missions like Orbital Express and vehicles like
the X-43.

Here's my piece on this silliness today:

Don't you mean, "Here's my piece of silliness today:"?


http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/media-b...as-nasa-plans/

Your legend-in-your-own-mind status is still intact.

Eric