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• Commented on Concerns Raised Over House NASA Authorization Bill

  How about someone who teaches grammar or Jr. High School - in the 21st century? That is where most students make their most formative decisions that affect their eventual career path. Citation of supporting evidence, please. I have educated the...

• Commented on Australian Media Swirls With Imaginary Solar Storm Warnings

  what stinks is media folks who take a balloon and blow it up as much as they can to make a name for themselves Indeed. Some call that the "Linda Moulton-Howe syndrome". :D...

• Commented on Bobby Braun's Plan To Re-charge NASA Technology

  Hmmm. So you're saying that defining requirements and developing a tech roadmap is "doing it", eh? When done properly, yes, those are exactly the first steps in "doing it." Now, I am sure you have been witness to a lot...

• Commented on Bobby Braun's Plan To Re-charge NASA Technology

  Now, we spend a huge amount of our time trying to convince those people that what we want to do is worthwhile, when most of them don't have sufficient knowledge about the relevant fields to render an intelligent decision. Bingo....

• Commented on Paul McCartney Speaks Out Against NASA Animal Experiments

  PETA kills animals: http://www.petakillsanimals.com/petasdirtysecret.cfm And you can read PETA's responses, weak as they are: http://www.petakillsanimals.com/petarebuttal.cfm Nothing new under the sun....

• Commented on Bobby Braun's Plan To Re-charge NASA Technology

  complaining about how NASA just invests in technology planning instead of technology doing. You know why NASA does that? It's because planning is LOTS cheaper. I see. Government jobs program. Just as I expected. Gotta keep those talkers (who are...

• Commented on Bobby Braun's Plan To Re-charge NASA Technology

  The people replying above are hateful and ignorant. NASA hasn't even been doing R&D, yet they're complaining about NASA wasting money on it. I can't quite tell whether you are being truly ignorant, or if you just wish to ignore...

• Commented on Bobby Braun's Plan To Re-charge NASA Technology

  Hits and misses, Harris: Propulsion, cryogenic depoting, closed loop life support, advanced avionics. Neither "propulsion" nor "advanced avionics" are technologies. They are nothing more than functional categories. A technology is a solution that answers the mail about how to better...

• Commented on Bobby Braun's Plan To Re-charge NASA Technology

  Yawn. Yet more Powerpoint Engineering. Funny how the forum is about "providing status, soliciting feedback, and planning the next steps." Generic enough for ya? Those three bullets could be used for pretty much anything in NASA. Notice that lots of...

• Commented on Courtney Stadd Joins Liam Sarsfield In Pleading Guilty

  Sorry Frank, but you can't have it both ways. I have seen you post here about the problems, corruption, and waste within NASA. And rightly so. But now, just because it happened that a friend of yours was on the...

• Commented on NAC Is Dissatisfied With NASA on Commercial Plans (or lack thereof)

  There's absolutely nothing wrong with giving private industry money to develop their own manned spaceflight capability for their own private commercial purposes. Are you sure about that? Have you been paying any attention at all to the whole WTO Boeing-Airbus...

• Commented on Kepler Mess: We Could Certainly Use Carl Sagan Right Now

  Well said, Keith. This type of "holding NASA accountable" is what I believe (IMO) your site should be primarily focused on. Idiots live and work everywhere, including NASA. Poor communicators are also everywhere. These alleged professionals are acting like children,...

• Commented on Dryden Seeks Ethnically Diverse Cylons

  I still think it's kind of silly but not really offensive as some seem to think. The thing that definitely makes it offensive is the fact that my tax dollars were used to pay people to come up with this...

• Commented on Has China Been Formally Invited to Join the ISS Program? (Another Update)

  Not sure why you are surprised, Frank. Did they ask US when they sold tourist seats to the station? Here's my message to China: Send money. This is a syndicate, and you must buy your way in with more than...

• Commented on Space Station Freedom Deja Vu All Over Again

  NASA, White House, Congress, and the contractors should never have let things come to this point. They should have been honest with the numbers and what they committed to do. Politicians being honest. Sure. Do I have to break the...

• Commented on The Rebellion Continues at JSC

  Keith: Editor's note: Go ask Charlie Bolden about his ongoing frustrations with regard to JSC management and their lack of cooperation on many things. I realize that you like Bolden, hate CxP, and want to leave it in the dust....

• Commented on Buzz Aldrin: Guest Host on World Wrestling Entertainment "Raw"

  To those who are deriding him for this, ask yourself: had Buzz been up there with Armstrong and Cernan defending Constellation, would you have been making the comments you did? Or are you just upset about the current NASA policy...

• Commented on Buzz Aldrin: Guest Host on World Wrestling Entertainment "Raw"

  For people to look down their noses at him reflects more on them than on him. How sweet! An elitist judgment of others by another elitist! Too bad your elitism causes you to come to wrong conclusions. I think he's...

• Commented on NASA CIO: How About Some Substance In Your Blog?

  Stories like this are precisely why I check NASAWatch every day. Thank, Keith. I completely agree with your points, as well as those of Mike Hilton. Government wastes our tax dollars in so many ways, and it always begins with...

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

  And the Do-Nothing Congress is finally out-(un)done by the Do-Nothing Obama Administration. Let's study the problem. We promise we will do something...trust us. I hope we get some change out of this. Change we can believe in? I never believed...

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

  Pretty much predicted this in an earlier thread. And I am hardly "prescient" on this because the political writing on the wall is crystal clear. Obama has become a liability to his party's Reps and Sens in their effort to...

• Commented on Bolden: "Jeff does exactly what I ask him to do"

  Things sure are going to get interesting come November. I wonder if this "plan without a plan" for HSF has an alternative plan for what happens if Republicans win a majority of seats in either chamber of Congress? My prediction...

• Commented on Bolden's Take on The Media

  Papa, Your replies here seem to imply that politicians do not play loose with facts. That they are always forthcoming with the truth, the whole truth, and the unadulturated (not politically-spun) truth. I have a feeling you do not believe...

• Commented on Mapping NASA's Current Dysfunctionality

  Folks can laugh (and they rightly should at the lunar architecture chart shared by Paul). However, nullstring seems to get it. And the "it" you need to "get" is relational knowledge in a dynamic operating environment. There are many names...

• Commented on Astrobiology Update

  "Avatar", an Astrobiology-themed movie, has earned more than $2 billion thus far. Clearly the public really digs Astrobiology Really? Clearly???? I would beg to differ with your conclusion, as a more scientific approach could lead to a host of other...

• Commented on Do These Words Still Work?

  Keith: Do these words still work? Words have never worked without the deeds to back them up. And isn't it ironic that the very person who threw the big Obama fundraiser, for which the NASA pep talk acted as political...

• Commented on Story Musgrave Thinks That The ISS is "an ungodly sin"

  1) Keith worked on the ISS, so I will grant him that it is difficult to be objective over a project in which you have invested personal sweat equity. 2) Frank, about your comment: Home port for assembly of deep...

• Commented on Faux News Update

  More of the same BS political propaganda, just this time it is from the Left. If the shuttle is "deteriorating" then why are there so many knowledgeable people behind continued flights beyond those currently planned? I can only assume that...

• Commented on Thwarting Space Commerce

  There have been many excellent replies in this thread to question Keith's assertion of hypocrisy. But I think the best was by trout007: But there is no logic in stopping the government before the market is ready. Fed Ex and...

• Commented on OSTP Preview of Thursday's Presidential Speech

  Cessna: Neil Armstrong has upstaged Obama. It's all over the national news now... When Neil Armstrong comes out of his shell to say something, you had better pay attention. Unlike when Buzz opens his continious yapper to gain more and...