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Griffin bye-bye at NASA?
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0811/13griffin/
Spock is dead? "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound Of a extended SRB! The Moon was lost, but now am found, When Dubya appointed me. ’Twas thrust that taught my heart to fear, And stretching my fears reliev’d; How precious did that extra segment appear, The hour I first believ’d! Thro’ many dangers, toils and snares, Constellation has already come; ’Tis Dubya has brought me safe thus far, But Obama may send me home. NASA promis’d good to me, Their retirement package my hope secures; They will my shield and portion be, As long as my life endures. Yes, when this program and mission shall fail, And Shuttle launches shall cease; I shall possess, within this vale, A life of joy and peace. Constellation's funding shall soon dissolve like snow, The Ares I forbear to shine; But NASA, who hire'd me here below, Will be forever mine. No Shuttle was lost, thanks to my good work, Though Hubble twas not repaired. At least I wasn't a complete jerk, When to Dan Goldin compared." :-D Pat |
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Griffin bye-bye at NASA?
On Nov 13, 5:44*pm, Pat Flannery wrote:
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0811/13griffin/ Spock is dead? "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound Of a extended SRB! The Moon was lost, but now am found, When Dubya appointed me. ’Twas thrust that taught my heart to fear, And stretching my fears reliev’d; How precious did that extra segment appear, The hour I first believ’d! Thro’ many dangers, toils and snares, Constellation has already come; ’Tis Dubya has brought me safe thus far, But Obama may send me home. NASA promis’d good to me, Their retirement package my hope secures; They will my shield and portion be, As long as my life endures. Yes, when this program and mission shall fail, And Shuttle launches shall cease; I shall possess, within this vale, A life of joy and peace. Constellation's funding shall soon dissolve like snow, The Ares I forbear to shine; But NASA, who hire'd me here below, Will be forever mine. No Shuttle was lost, thanks to my good work, Though Hubble twas not repaired. At least I wasn't a complete jerk, When to Dan Goldin compared." :-D Pat He will be remembered most for his ill-informed decision to bring back the poorly-designed-to-begin-with NASA Meatball logo. |
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He will be remembered most for his ill-informed decision to bring back the poorly-designed-to-begin-with NASA Meatball logo. That was Goldin, you dumbass. |
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Jorge R. Frank wrote: M wrote: He will be remembered most for his ill-informed decision to bring back the poorly-designed-to-begin-with NASA Meatball logo. That was Goldin, you dumbass. The way he phrased it, it could refer to either Griffin or Goldin. "He will be remembered most for his ill-informed decision to bring back the poorly-designed-to-begin-with NASA Meatball logo." Everyone is sure getting ****ed-off as far as language goes after Obama won. BTW, a interesting article regarding _why_ Obama won - because Republicans either didn't vote, or didn't vote for McCain for president - although voting for other Republican candidates on the ballot: http://www.boston.com/news/politics/...nt_set_record/ Boy, if that's not a bad sign, nothing is...that means they weren't even willing to vote for McCain just to stop Obama from being elected, and are feeling completely alienated by their own party's presidential pick. The Republicans have some serious work to do if they are to find a single political/economic philosophy they can all gather around...although I think the whole party might break into two or three separate parties shortly. Actually, even though such a fracturing in the short term would be handing the Democrats total political power on a platter, in the long term it would allow new political/economic philosophies to emerge and gain adherents, which would be very healthy for America's future. I have never in my life seen the Democrats run as completely competent and aggressive of a campaign as they did this year. It was downright astounding to see; bringing back memories of the political power the party wielded under FDR. Pat |
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Brian Gaff wrote: Oh come on, that is a bit harsh! Brian I actually really liked the original NASA logo; and didn't it come back in under Sean O'Keefe? Pat |
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On Nov 13, 9:27 pm, M wrote:
On Nov 13, 5:44 pm, Pat Flannery wrote: http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0811/13griffin/ Spock is dead? "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound Of a extended SRB! The Moon was lost, but now am found, When Dubya appointed me. ’Twas thrust that taught my heart to fear, And stretching my fears reliev’d; How precious did that extra segment appear, The hour I first believ’d! Thro’ many dangers, toils and snares, Constellation has already come; ’Tis Dubya has brought me safe thus far, But Obama may send me home. NASA promis’d good to me, Their retirement package my hope secures; They will my shield and portion be, As long as my life endures. Yes, when this program and mission shall fail, And Shuttle launches shall cease; I shall possess, within this vale, A life of joy and peace. Constellation's funding shall soon dissolve like snow, The Ares I forbear to shine; But NASA, who hire'd me here below, Will be forever mine. No Shuttle was lost, thanks to my good work, Though Hubble twas not repaired. At least I wasn't a complete jerk, When to Dan Goldin compared." :-D Pat He will be remembered most for his ill-informed decision to bring back the poorly-designed-to-begin-with NASA Meatball logo. Perhaps BHO should put William Mook in charge. At least Mook would get billions upon billions spent in no time at all, even if it meant another cold-war or WWIII in the process. I bet that would make these brown-nosed minions and clowns into happy civil service campers. ~ Brad Guth Brad_Guth Brad.Guth BradGuth BG / “Guth Usenet” |
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"Pat Flannery" wrote in message dakotatelephone... http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0811/13griffin/ Spock is dead? We all hoped it would be true, now we're starting to see confirmation that even Griffin expects to get the boot. Still, Griffin is clueless. He said: We're in a good policy direction right now. NASA, in my view, for the first time since (the) Nixon administration terminated Apollo, NASA is now doing the right things. We're also doing things right, but, we're doing the right things. If somebody wanted me to stay on but said 'now, we need to go over here,' well, do it with somebody else. He also said that keeping the shuttle flying beyond 2010 is harder the closer they look at it. I think it's only harder because of Griffin's insistence of tearing out all the shuttle infrastructure in order to replace it with Ares. Cancel Ares, and those problems vanish! Let's see, Ares is an abomination, so I think that cancelling it would qualify as "now, we need to go over here", where "here" is EELV. Goodbye and don't let the door hit you on the @$$ on the way out! Jeff -- beb - To paraphrase Stephen Colbert, reality has an anti-Ares I bias. |
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On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:03:13 -0600, in a place far, far away, Pat
Flannery made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: Jorge R. Frank wrote: M wrote: He will be remembered most for his ill-informed decision to bring back the poorly-designed-to-begin-with NASA Meatball logo. That was Goldin, you dumbass. The way he phrased it, it could refer to either Griffin or Goldin. "He will be remembered most for his ill-informed decision to bring back the poorly-designed-to-begin-with NASA Meatball logo." Everyone is sure getting ****ed-off as far as language goes after Obama won. BTW, a interesting article regarding _why_ Obama won - because Republicans either didn't vote, or didn't vote for McCain for president - although voting for other Republican candidates on the ballot: http://www.boston.com/news/politics/...nt_set_record/ Boy, if that's not a bad sign, nothing is...that means they weren't even willing to vote for McCain just to stop Obama from being elected, and are feeling completely alienated by their own party's presidential pick. That's because McCain wasn't nominated by Republicans. He was nominated by the media, independents and Democrats voting in open primaries. Both candidates were nominated by the press, which is why they both sucked. Very few people who voted Republican voted for John McCain. They either voted for Sarah Palin, or against Barack Obama. The only people who might have otherwise been inclined to vote for John McCain (like people in the media) liked Obama more. |
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Griffin bye-bye at NASA?
On Nov 14, 6:13 am, "Jeff Findley"
wrote: "Pat Flannery" wrote in message dakotatelephone... http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0811/13griffin/ Spock is dead? We all hoped it would be true, now we're starting to see confirmation that even Griffin expects to get the boot. Still, Griffin is clueless. He said: We're in a good policy direction right now. NASA, in my view, for the first time since (the) Nixon administration terminated Apollo, NASA is now doing the right things. We're also doing things right, but, we're doing the right things. If somebody wanted me to stay on but said 'now, we need to go over here,' well, do it with somebody else. He also said that keeping the shuttle flying beyond 2010 is harder the closer they look at it. I think it's only harder because of Griffin's insistence of tearing out all the shuttle infrastructure in order to replace it with Ares. Cancel Ares, and those problems vanish! Let's see, Ares is an abomination, so I think that cancelling it would qualify as "now, we need to go over here", where "here" is EELV. Goodbye and don't let the door hit you on the @$$ on the way out! Jeff -- beb - To paraphrase Stephen Colbert, reality has an anti-Ares I bias. Perhaps we should outsource our NASA to India, whereas at not 10 cents on the dollar would be a solid win-win for the few remaining public dollars we've got left. ~ BG |
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