Re: after the next accident...

On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 09:38:15 -0400, "Rhonda Lea Kirk"
<rhondalea@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

John wrote:
Bob Haller wrote:

<snipped>

Rhonda. . . you are right . . . this started as a reply to Bob . . .
but then as I wrote it . . .I realized (again) . . . that it was a
waste . . .

Go Discovery

John

John,

hallerb drones. That's all he does. If everyone had killfiled him years
ago, it would have saved a lot of trouble.

If he had a single insight or even one redeeming virture, it would be
one thing, but he's just a never-was who puffs himself up by drooling
all over sci.space.

He lives for the attention, nothing more. He doesn't give a *** about
the space program or anything else but himself.

rl


FWIW, I maintain a large book site (Mysteries/SFF/etc author info and
almost 9000 reviews) and emailed him a few years ago to ask if he was
the same Bob Haller who writes mysteries (he wasn't). We weren't
discussing NASA, but he seemed a nice person in the few emails where
we chatted back then. I don't agree with his "gloom and doom" stance
on launching the shuttle, but I don't killfile him or hate him because
of it.

BTW, who was the guy who used to post so much weird stuff about
Challenger and had written a book about it. For some reason, I was
reminded of him when they talked about RCS heater problems today, but
I can't remember his name and I never really understood what his
theory was. IIRC, he was always arguing about whether the SRBs on
Challenger crossed or not and I seem to remember that there was an
accidental RCS firing in the theory somewhere.

Getting back to the subject of Bob, it sure would be great to be a fly
on the wall and hear a discussion of what test flying means between
Bob and Chuck Yeager :-)

Personally, I think it's time to fly, if the weather will just
cooperate.

-- David (not an aerospace engineer or NASA/Contractor employee)
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