Re: Barack Obama Pits Space Explorers Against School Children

On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 12:17:46 -0800 (PST), in a place far, far away, Ian
Parker <ianparker2@xxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

You keep using that line as your affirmation and see how the number of
loons keeps growing.

Not very fast. The biggest problem is that the loon/useful poster
ratio has increased dramatically here over the past few years.

Yes and your number of posts has been increasing, so by your own
admission you've been adding to the fodder.

Too bad your blog sucks, as you tend to spend a lot of time here
rather than there.- Hide quoted text -

There are basically two kinds of postings to which one might take
exception to on those grounds. The first of these are those whose
postings defy known scientific laws and established facts. Strangely
enough Rand seems to attack these very little.

The second type is someone like myself who is scientifically orthodox
but whose political beliefs and moral values he takes exception to. I
think that space colonies in the form in which they seem to be
imagined by certain people are immoral, impractical and dangerous.

If you look at space from an othodox scientific/economic perspective
one or two things become clear. The first of these is that there is no
magic formula to lower costs. If there were someone would now be
building a cheap LEO reusable vehicle.

Yes, of course. In fact we would have had it three thousand years
ago.

<rest of typical Ian stupidity snipped>
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