Re: How to be immune from budget cuts

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 10:22:55 -0400, in a place far, far away, Josh
Hill <usereplyto@xxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

>>> NASA have put people on the moon, and they will be known thoughout
>>>history for this great achievement. You space capitalists have not done
>>>anything of comparable achievement yet. All you people care about is profit.
>>>Any patriotic American would be proud of NASA's achievements in space, and
>>>would also understand that NASA has made mistakes also. After all, they are
>>>only human.
>>
>>See what I mean?
>
>I think Ray has a good point, myself. One can gripe about NASA, as
>about any government agency. Nobody ever said that government was
>efficient. But I think one should also give them credit where it's
>due. It's doubly amazing that they've managed to do what they have
>while working for meddlesome politicians who change their minds every
>five minutes,

They've certainly had plenty of money with which to accomplish it (and
accomplishments nowhere near in concert with that amount)

>fund nutty can't work projects like the X-33 (one
>engineer told me that if NASA was ever forced to do something like
>that again he would quit his job),

Do you really think that NASA was "forced" to give that contract to
Lockmart, or choose their flawed concept?
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