Re: Jeff, why waste the time?

From: Eric Chomko (echomko_at__at_polaris.umuc.edu)
Date: 03/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:56:00 +0000 (UTC)

Rand Simberg (simberg.interglobal@org.trash) wrote:
: On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 21:16:58 +0000 (UTC), in a place far, far away,
: echomko_at_@polaris.umuc.edu (Eric Chomko) made the phosphor on my
: monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

: >: >There is no incentive for private industry to go into space at anywhere
: >: >near the levels that NASA is now going into space.
: >
: >: That's true. There are incentives for them to go at far greater
: >: levels, particularly since NASA is not currently going into space at
: >: all, at least with humans.
: >
: >Are you saying that since 2/2003 that private manned spaceflight actually
: >leads NASA due to SS1's successes and the shuttle being grounded?

: No, just that it will within the next decade.

We'll see.

: But FWIW, private enterprise put more people into space last year than
: NASA did.

That may be a fluke.

: >Did you actually cheer when Columbia blew up?

: No.

: Did you actually molest all the little boys in your neighborhood?

Do you still beat your wife?

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