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• Commented on Driving to Devon Island Across Sea Ice - Update: Track Progress Live

  look out for the aliens!) http://www.indecisionforever.com/2010/05/13/are-anti-american-aliens-stealing-our-space-ships/ dancin in the moonlight, everybody's feelin warm and bright...

• Commented on Aerospace Corp Responds To Rep. Giffords' Questions

  yeah, there seems to be just way too many weird science & politics things going on for any of Obama's or Griffin's space thing to be on the up & up. Air Force seeks protection from scorching heat of hypersonic...

• Commented on Hearing Reaction

  Best answer for the people vs. bots question: If the Raptor had been an “unmanned” aircraft, all six planes would have crashed. They would have been lost in mid-ocean; the wreckage (including flight recorders) might never have been recovered. Engineers...

• Commented on Mike Griffin, Master Manipulator

  Interesting that there seems to be a lot of situational parallels between Griffin's CxP bungle-mania and the old Soviet failures, (as well as foreboding for the new,bold,commercial, gamechange-a-mania). Just a few: Korolev only sold lunar landing mission to leadership in...

• Commented on Today's Senate Hearing on Space Policy

  Because the moon is believed to be achievable by the current workforce within a decade, 5-7 yrs if it were planned and managed correctly (unlike CxP). Mars is way too far in the future, asteroids schmasteroids - DOD can do...

• Commented on Hearing Reaction

  There's a longer AP story that includes: Cernan said NASA administrator Charles Bolden warned in a briefing last week the failure of the private sector to provide spacecraft in a timely way could result in a bailout equal to that...

• Commented on Today's Senate Hearing on Space Policy

  except for the CxP part, go Hutchinson! Bill Nelson stated that he requested the Mars thing from Obama, instead of the Moon, so that alone will get him voted out in FL. Then he wussed on requesting Shuttle extension -...

• Commented on Today's Senate Hearing on Space Policy

  Call in the military to blast rogue satellite? Failing Intelsat satellite raises questions about space debris "Will the military need to be called in to blow up the rogue Intelsat satellite meandering through Earth's orbit? Or maybe a NASA Space...

• Commented on Today's Senate Hearing on Space Policy

  and for the latest in commercial space adventures: Satellite drifts out of control miles above Earth, threatens US cable programming Orbital Sciences Corp., did not return a phone call seeking comment. The dead satellites still are a threat to other...

• Commented on NRC on NASA Labs: Not A Pretty Picture

  Perhaps Holdren should form a non-profit to lobby bigillionaires for university research facility upgrades rather than NASA funding. Try the top 20 bigilliaires and the top 20 corporate profiteers. Gates, one of the world's richest men, has given $4.5 million...

• Commented on ESMD Gets Back To Basics

  It makes no more sense to have a NASA with an under-emphasis on human spaceflight than it did to have a NASA with an over-emphasis http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_space_thewritestuff/2010/05/lyles-new-nasa-budget-harms-human-spaceflight.html Amen dancin in the moonlight, everybody's feelin warm and bright...

• Commented on A Nation of Spacefarers

  Talk about denial in motion: Will BP's Washington connections help it now? The company counts current and former employees on at least three federal advisory panels: NASA's Aerospace Advisory Panel http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hoC7A7m2mWNzeSLX1d7k06DYEk9AD9FJUS0G0 Deborah Grubbe, P.E., is Vice President - Group Safety...

• Commented on Moon Walkers Briefed On Internal NASA Study Results (Update)

  Actually, the last one I remember was the former Orion(?) Chief Engineer that dissented with Griffin etc's safety compromises modus operandi (which was disputed by an independent safety panel also). @Libby: Can you be more specific, are you referring to...

• Commented on Moon Walkers Briefed On Internal NASA Study Results (Update)

  I said that both the Bush & Clinton policy wonks need to just go home (& shut the f*@! up). It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may...

• Commented on ATK: Don't Worry - Be Happy!

  http://www.inc.com/magazine/20100501/why-is-business-writing-so-awful.html They don't hide behind jargon. They aren't insecure. And everything under the sun is in tune but the sun is eclipsed by the moon....

• Commented on Olson and Giffords on Obama's Plan

  it seems like Giffords is at least acknowledging that the status quo (CxP I presume) is a no go, so that's some progress at least. With the astro-hubby connection, her "third way" seems to indicate that at least some in...

• Commented on Presentations From The Closed Space Organization Meeting (Update)

  and Hein would know? We shall have to evolve problem-solvers galore — since each problem they solve creates ten problems more. The Only Solution - Piet Hein CONSOLATION GROOK Losing one glove is certainly painful, but nothing compared to the...

• Commented on Moon Walkers Briefed On Internal NASA Study Results (Update)

  - He's not deferring HLV development, he's accelerating it Gates: Cuts in Pentagon bureaucracy needed to help maintain military force to cut as much as $15 billion in overhead costs from the Pentagon's $550 billion budget Gates is far from...

• Commented on Moon Walkers Briefed On Internal NASA Study Results (Update)

  The shuttle is a flawed system Newsflash: all rockets are flawed and inherently unsafe. The diff with Shuttle is that the design flaws were known prior to the disasters, both were identified by the lower level engineers prior to launch/landing,...

• Commented on Moon Walkers Briefed On Internal NASA Study Results (Update)

  President Obama can lay the blame on the previous Administration. However, based on his pro-hsf space change in position during the election, Florida voters expected he would change the Griffin path for Shuttle. The Presidential nightmare is no longer MAD...

• Commented on NASA Is Embracing Open Source

  Empire builder? Many companies in the open source software field actually make more money from fixing problems other people have with open source than from anything else; these are service companies which simultaneously sell “mostly working” open source software and,...

• Commented on Presentations From The Closed Space Organization Meeting (Update)

  we can send a man to the moon (or used to), but we can't ....... figure out why bold, new, game-changing technologies - umm such as hybrid cars, are not cheaper than the old tech cars? in fact, hybrid cars...

• Commented on ATK: Don't Worry - Be Happy!

  Ammonium perchlorate behind explosion on arsenal The process is part of work the arsenal is doing to find a more environmentally-friendly way to dispose of solid propellant instead of burning it. This is because new environmental regulations no longer allow...

• Commented on Welcome to Scott Horowitz's Parallel Universe

  "The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy "The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep." - Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "We're going to turn...

• Commented on Kosmas and Hutchison Tag Team on Space Policy

  the KSC Shuttle workforce would agree with your CxP assessment but Obama doesn't win in Florida with outsourcing to Russia, Merchant7, 5 year decision delays, or any other plan that results in a bad rocket to nowhere and loss of...

• Commented on Kosmas and Hutchison Tag Team on Space Policy

  you must concede that the president's plan is a vast improvement over Constellation in regards to ISS in which frickin universe would that be? reboot & rethink: CxP-POR = bad Merchant 7 = bad Outsourcing to Russia = bad Stalling...

• Commented on Task Force on Space Industry Workforce and Economic Development

  And what exactly is so wrong with letting "commericial" guys take over moving cargo/humans to/fron ISS DUH profit over safety for the cheaper plan, which rock have you been hiding under? http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/58855/title/Preventing_disastrous_offshore_spills_may_require_space-program_diligence You do realize NASA outsourced much of its...

• Commented on NASA's FY 11 Budget: Kicking The Can Down The Road

  LoL, wonder what her next stand will be? (& it's Orwell's 1984) @RC: You can dress up that pro-government argument however you want. It still doesn't make sense. The NASA way can't be the only way to get a safe...

• Commented on Using ISS Needs To Extend Shuttle - Update

  "NASA HSF is a luxury the nation can ill afford. So the idea of extending Shuttle is a non starter. Obamaspace is all about attempting to cheapen HSF access to space because the existing paradigm will not work anymore. actually...

• Commented on Task Force on Space Industry Workforce and Economic Development

  link to above article: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/58855/title/Preventing_disastrous_offshore_spills_may_require_space-program_diligence dancin in the moonlight, everybody's feelin warm & bright...