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Weirder election than Battlestar Galactica's
wrote in message oups.com... If youu look at what happened under the Nixon administration he was liberal by today's very conservative standards. If you compare the administrations Kennedy's was the more conservative. |
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wrote in message oups.com... And apparently, neither do you. If that is apparent to you then you must be as ignorant of US government as Rand is. |
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Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
"Robert J. Kolker" wrote in message ... It was contemplated and studied by NASA. It took congress with the inspiration of JFK to come up with nearly ten years of funding to do the job. Over twentyfour billion 1960s dollars to put a footprint on the Moon. That may be, but it doesn't change the fact that the Apollo project was initiated before JFK was even president-elect. As I recall, it was Truman. Turns out they needed Area 51 for studying a crashed alien spacecraft, so there wasn't room to fake the moon landing as they were planning. He had them invent NASA and land on the moon for real. Brian -- If televison's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up. -- Dorothy Gambrell (http://catandgirl.com) |
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"Robert J. Kolker" wrote in news:48gfdgFjul17U5
@individual.net: Rand Simberg wrote: Yes. I did. I even shook Werner von Braun's hand. Well, whoop-de-doo. This is the same Werner v Braun who famously said: "I aim for the stars but sometimes I hit London and Antwerp." Von Braun never said that. /I Aim for the Stars/ was the title of one of his books, and satirist Mort Sahl added "(But Sometimes I Hit London)". -- JRF Reply-to address spam-proofed - to reply by E-mail, check "Organization" (I am not assimilated) and think one step ahead of IBM. |
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"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in news:CXyUf.9251
: "Rand Simberg" wrote in message ... Actually, had Johnson been reelected, it would have even with Apollo One. If Johnson could have been reelected he would have run for reelection. Johnson was eligible for reelection in 1968 (he had served less than two years of JFK's term) but chose not to run. See http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#Am22 -- JRF Reply-to address spam-proofed - to reply by E-mail, check "Organization" (I am not assimilated) and think one step ahead of IBM. |
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Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
That may be, but it doesn't change the fact that the Apollo project was initiated before JFK was even president-elect. The idea and some of the concepts may have been formulated earlier but the Project consists of the full task list. The PERT chart. No PERT Chart, no project. You call wishful thinking and mental masturbation a project. You are wrong. No project unless the plans in all their details have been formulated and the money made available to realized the plans. I suspect you have very little experience in how real large scale projects, both governmental and corporate are carried out. Day dreaming about rockets to the moon doth not a project make. Bob Kolker |
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Cranny Dane wrote:
Maybe Disney would for him ? Disney was an honest business man. He did not have twenty four billion to spend on leaving footprints on the Moon. He probably did not even have a billion to spend. On the other hand, the U.S. government anually rapes and plunders is citizens so it has the money to do such useful things as leaving foot prints on the moon. If the gummint was going to spend that kind of money, it should have set up habitats ( a system similar to Antarctica) for science study and funded telescopes to be built on the dark side of the moon. At least we would have gotten decent astronomy out of it. Bob Kolker |
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"Jorge R. Frank" wrote in message ... "Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in news:CXyUf.9251 : "Rand Simberg" wrote in message ... Actually, had Johnson been reelected, it would have even with Apollo One. If Johnson could have been reelected he would have run for reelection. Johnson was eligible for reelection in 1968 (he had served less than two years of JFK's term) but chose not to run. See http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#Am22 That is 100% correct. What Steven was referring to was the fact that Johnson knew he had no chance of winning so he decided not to run. |
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Weirder election than Battlestar Galactica's
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 15:14:42 GMT, "Steven P. McNicoll"
wrote: Actually, had Johnson been reelected, it would have even with Apollo One. If Johnson could have been reelected he would have run for reelection. "Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President." President Lyndon B. Johnson - March 31, 1968 http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/lbj-decision.htm |
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