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• Commented on Is Something Wrong With the Drill on MSL? (Update)

  A couple of things: (1) You don't seem to understand how Livejournal works. Livejournal posts can be published as public, or as private posts limited to a user-defined subset of registered Livejournal accountholders. A given user's "page" is the sum...

• Commented on DIRECTV Charges for (Free) NASA TV

  Seeing as how there has never been a time that DirecTV was a free service, I believe that DirecTV has always charged for NASA TV. As has every other cable/satellite provider who has ever offered it....

• Commented on Shuttles and Museums: Thinking Outside The Box

  Um, how exactly does a vehicle the size of a DC-3 that is carried parasitically atop a 747.... have a full fuselage "the size of a 747"?...

• Commented on SRBs Put Out 144 million pounds of thrust? Don't Think So.

  Yes, that's a lot of horsepower, but how much torque does it have? If those SRBs can't put the HP on the road, then I'm sticking with my V6....

• Commented on Pointless Lawsuit Over Public Domain NASA Photo

  By the way -- McCandless can't sue you because your use of the photo is a protected First Amendment use, which trumps the right of personality....

• Commented on Pointless Lawsuit Over Public Domain NASA Photo

  Keith-- You're correct that a copyright case would be frivolous, as the photo is clearly, unequivocally in the public domain. But while I'm not privy to the filings, I'm pretty sure McCandless isn't suing under copyright -- he's suing under...

• Commented on Wayne Hale's New Job

  I have to admit -- I've never heard of SAS before.......

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

  I think Frank has pretty much hit the nail on the head as far as the "why". But unfortunately, I disagree with him on one point -- I think the public has correctly perceived that manned spaceflight has no relation...

• Commented on Shelby Was For The Private Sector Before He Was Against It

  I don't really know, or care, about Shelby's positions on things. But there's nothing inherently contradictory about these quoted positions. The former quote is arguing against Keynesian macroeconomic intervention (e.g. "government spending, regardless of where it is spent, will improve...

• Commented on Bolden Meets With Obama

  My predictions: -- Bolden's getting prepped for the Obama admin's plan of action in the immediate future; this isn't a "discussion" so much as it's a heads-up for him. -- Administration cancels existing architecture and buries it in the slow...

• Commented on When Others Discover What We Have Forgotten

  Keith/Frank -- I have to echo what Hallie said. Thinking that this would have ANYTHING to do with the desire to explore or fire up the imaginations of children is... well, profoundly naive, if not laughable. Nigeria is oil-rich. Little...