Re: How to be immune from budget cuts

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:28:35 GMT, simberg.interglobal@xxxxxxxxx (Rand
Simberg) wrote:

>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?

No, but it seems that the staff at NASA didn't believe in /any/ of the
SSTO proposals.

--
Josh

"This is a devastating storm. This is a storm that's
going to require immediate action now." -George W. Bush,
four days after Hurricane Katrina
.

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