Re: NASA competes with Private Enterprise?

In article <4642d250.1442745781@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
fairwater@xxxxxxxxx (Derek Lyons) wrote:

Joe Strout <joe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Not necessarily scrap it, but mothball it, yes. Again, it's the law:
they are required to purchase commercial services where available.

"Equivalent commercial services".

So, are you merely advocating mothballing NASA's vomit comet because
of your typical kneejerk reaction - or have you actually compared the
two (NASA and commercial) aircraft? (Other than superficially.)

What are you doing in my newsreader? I killfiled you some time ago.

But to answer your question, yes, aircraft which make parabolic flights,
producing up to 30 sec or so of free fall, are providing equivalent
services. If you can make a coherent argument as to why Zero-G's
service is NOT equivalent, let's hear it. (I'll wait a couple days
before killfiling you again, just in case.) Otherwise, please buzz off,
and take your typical kneejerk reaction to argue against anyone says
somewhere else.
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