Re: Bush cancels Hubble telescope rescue mission

From: Eric Chomko (echomko_at__at_polaris.umuc.edu)
Date: 01/24/05 

Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 22:25:12 +0000 (UTC)

Rand Simberg (simberg.interglobal@org.trash) wrote:
: On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:10:43 +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:

: >: >NASA, in case you hadn't noticed, is not exactly awash in money.
: >
: >: Actually, by any rational measure, NASA *is* awash in money.
: >: Unfortunately, it's also awash in largely pointless (at least from the
: >: standpoint of advancing us in space, such as ISS) projects that remain
: >: politically sacrosanct, that suck up more money than it has.
: >
: >Yes, I take it you include the recent Mars and Saturn missions in that

: Yes, you always take intelligent commentary to be some stupidly wrong
: thing.

Pure intellectual dishonesty to delete my sentence midstream. But why
should I expect anything less?

Eric

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