Re: Defending the NASA Proposal

On 2005-09-21, Rand Simberg <simberg.interglobal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>Heh, yes, but that's great. I mean, we wouldn't have gone to the moon
>>if it hadn't been for the Russians -- here's to hoping that the
>>Chinese will scare us into doing some really cool stuff.
>
> Well, so far, to the degree they've scared us at all, it's been into
> doing really dumb stuff.

I think you may be underestimating the ability of the US government to
manage to do really dumb stuff without having to be scared into it...

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-Andrew Gray
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