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• Commented on Center Director Avatar Droid Attends Reception

  to sc220: word. Furthermore, we should be excited at the opportunities offered by telerobotic technologies. According to Anybot's website, their avatar concept is offered for $15k. This is a very small drop in the bucket for the potential significance of...

• Commented on You Are Never Too Old To Stop Learning

  Please pardon the attention to detail, but unless there is satirical or subtle humor here... Maybe the Blog posting title should be something like "You Are Never Too Old To Learn". While I'm sure of the best intentions, the way...

• Commented on Kepler Co-Investigator Spills The Beans: Lots of Earth-like Planets

  Word. Sink your teeth into this matter. GRRRRRRRRRRR!...

• Commented on Obama and Glenn Meet To Talk Space

  Whatever new direction Congress and the President have for NASA's space exploration, let's hope its budget is both planned AND implemented for the new program. Otherwise, taxpayers will just have another canned program like Constellation, or Space Station Freedom. After...

• Commented on Kepler Withholds Data While NASA Struggles To Be Relevant

  Spacester presents an interesting point. Most all of us geeks and space junkies would surely agree that discovering another habitable planet in our universe would be among the highest motives for space exploration. But our tax dollars are paying for...

• Commented on Why Isn't The Rest Of America Upset About This?

  Maybe the reason we don't hear strong public outrage (or support) is of course for the higher-national-priority reasons mentioned above (recession, national budget, international involvements, etc.); but also a matter of public outreach. I have yet to hear someone mention...

• Commented on Welcome to Scott Horowitz's Parallel Universe

  To Backwaters: word. A good start might be to address the claim by Dr. Horowitz about COTS cargo flights to ISS estimated around $45k/lb versus Ares I at $32k/lb. A roughly 50% cost difference is substantial! This claim alone is...

• Commented on Where Next?

  Who didn't see this coming? Something to chew on: On the bright side, $50 million per ticket for a ride to the ISS on the soyuz sounds like a good thing for the US... in the long-term. SpaceX claims they...

• Commented on NASA Is Oblivious

  Word. Cameron's eloquent, explicit support for the new vision should be gobbled up immediately with enthusiasm by NASA. Maybe the administration can follow-up over NasaTV ...in 3D!...

• Commented on SpaceX Refutes Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel

  Maybe it's important to make a distinction here between flying publicly astronauts, and flying privately funded tourists. It is clear from the beginning that SpaceX wants to do commercial manned launches, and making such launches to ISS appears to be...

• Commented on Feingold Control Spending Now Act

  to newpapyrus: word. That proposal for a health care plan is also interesting....

• Commented on Mike Griffin's ESAS Architecture is Dead

  Whatever your perspective may be on Constellation, that image with the red x's through the rockets: now that's just cold......

• Commented on New Poll Shows Support For Space Funding Cuts

  Adam Smith, smiling in his grave, with delight at the vision of a 0-g cirque du soleil concert, complete with performing artists dressed as monkeys, for the entertainment of wealthy space tourists? If that’s what it takes to advance technology...

• Commented on Why Does it Take 2 Years For GSFC To Respond to a FOIA Request?

  "NASA should be allowed to turn over Data without it being spun as support one way or another. I think a quick paper dump would have looked more neutral than a stalling action." Word....

• Commented on Senate Votes To Restore NASA Budget Cuts

  It's surprising that we do not see more news reported on this topic....

• Commented on Ares 1-Y is Toast

  Regarding Human rating: Word. (I'm not an astronaut though; sorry)...

• Commented on Trying A Little Too Hard To Be Hip (update)

  Indeed I am....Bark! You make a fair point though: I am as well behind a screen calling the shots, and go one further....

• Commented on Trying A Little Too Hard To Be Hip (update)

  Why bother addressing this topic, in light of other priorities? What's more is that we are imparting our personal perspectives on how (or how not) to best reach out to the public. This guy is right; it's easy to criticize...

• Commented on MRO Still in Safe Mode After 6 Weeks

  On the bright side, MRO has served us well...