Re: Jeff, why waste the time?

From: Rand Simberg (simberg.interglobal_at_org.trash)
Date: 03/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 00:32:09 GMT

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.

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

>Did you actually cheer when Columbia blew up?

No.

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

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