another phony "milestone"

I've been alternately dismayed and amused by NASA's seeming need to
claim everything they do is somehow a first, or historic, or a
milestone. Today's ISS on-orbit status contains the following: "Today,
continuous manned occupancy of the ISS reaches 1000 days. What a
milestone in human frontiers exploration history!"

Sure. They've pulled within 2641 days of the longest continuous
occupancy achieved on Mir. Thanks for the 7+ year heads-up on a
potential new record!

"Chris Jones" wrote in message
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I've been alternately dismayed and amused by NASA's seeming need to
claim everything they do is somehow a first, or historic, or a
milestone. Today's ISS on-orbit status contains the following: "Today,
continuous manned occupancy of the ISS reaches 1000 days. What a
milestone in human frontiers exploration history!"

Sure. They've pulled within 2641 days of the longest continuous
occupancy achieved on Mir. Thanks for the 7+ year heads-up on a
potential new record!

Yeah, but it's a milestone for ISS. Just like 100 days in office for a
President or 100 episodes of a television show. They'll get to the 3,641ish
days record of Mir.

--
Alan Erskine
alanerskine(at)optusnet.com.au
Is Lewis Moran the type of father figure
John Howard wants for Australian children?

Chris Jones wrote

I've been alternately dismayed and amused by NASA's seeming need to
claim everything they do is somehow a first, or historic, or a
milestone.

Yeah, this is a running joke of which NASA seems to be totally
unaware or totally unconcerned. It would be interesting to find
a former NASA PAO who could commit truth without fear of retaliation
and ask if the first/historic/milestone stuff is explicit policy,
or just in the air they breathe.

Alan Erskine wrote:

some psycho crap

About Alan Erskine

Alan Erskine is a well known Australian netkook, psychopath, and pedophile
who lives in Melbourne. He usually stalks and harasses the posters of the
sci.space groups, although he is known to make excursions into a wide range
of other groups for the purposes of trolling and stalking and harassing the
participants there. He is currently under investigation by the authorities
in Australia. If you fall victim to his frequent attacks and
stalking/harassment campaigns, like so many in the sci.space groups have,
notify . This psycho is dangerous.

Most sane participants have been forced to killfile him for his frequent
violent outbursts at posters and his unrelenting attacks. Some are taking
legal action against him.

Here are just a few of his victims. He has been stalking and harrasing
Scott and Betty Grissom relentlessly. Scott Grissom is the son of Gus
Grissom, the second American in space, who died in an Apolo 1 training
exercise fire, and Betty Grissom, 75, is his widow.

Alan has also been waging long-time stalking and harassment campaigns
against other well-known members of the space community, including Richard
Katz of NASA, John Maxson, and his sons Paul and Daniel Maxson.

Alan is not just content to harass his victims in the newsgroups, he
usually also stalks them via email. If you find yourself on the receiving
end of Alan's famous psychotic emails, contact
immediately, as well as the law enforcement agencies in Melbourne,
Australia. This psycho is very, VERY dangerous. Do not attempt to reason
with him yourself, many others have tried and he does not respond to
reason. Let the authorities deal with him.