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• Commented on NASA Funded Astronomer Wins Nobel Prize

  Actually, Saturn, the bubble theories don't have to be proven untrue. It's enough if they can't by scientific consensus be proven true. Thanks for the reference. It should make interesting reading. I perfectly fine with finding a physical phenomenon that...

• Commented on Video: J-2X Rocket Engine Test

  What a sad debate. Developing J-2X seems a smart move, and it certainly doesn't invalidate any parallel development being done by other companies/organizations. Given that there is no single path forward for manned exploration or even heavy lift, not having...

• Commented on NASA Funded Astronomer Wins Nobel Prize

  No, a theory was proposed that the apparent acceleration of cosmic expansion was an illusion due to us being located near the center of a mostly empty "bubble" about 8 billion ly across. No studies done have supported that theory,...

• Commented on Video: China Uses "America The Beautiful" on Their Space Station Propaganda

  I don't think any single person is qualified to an absolute statement about what motivation was behind any particular government's actions. If you ask 1000 people you'll get many different answers. The same would happen here, in the US. In...

• Commented on SpaceX Unveils Fully Reusable Falcon 9 Plans

  Really? People are actually picking at the video because it's slick and doesn't reveal all the technical issues to be overcome or because it shows things happening perfectly? If that's all there is to complain about, that's not very much....

• Commented on SpaceX Is Building the "Grasshopper" RLV

  Well, the alarmist tone is certainly there, and text could have come straight out of a political party playbook. Unfortunately, the facts are absent, and the predictions certainly are suspect. There is absolutely no facts to support #3, that is...

• Commented on SLS Procurement: Still Waiting For The Details (Update)

  ...and it's been shown again and again that Constellation was not going to be sustainable/affordable....

• Commented on SLS Procurement: Still Waiting For The Details (Update)

  Well, so far it appears the only defined mission for SLS is to spend, at least until the price goes up, $XXX. Actual space going missions? Oh, we'll come up with those later, and then we'll just shape those missions...

• Commented on Robbing Human Space Flight To Bail Out Webb

  Unfortunately, in 15-20 years we won't be able to see what we would see in 6-10 years. As soon as a telescope sees first light, the amount of stuff it could see decreases immediately, and given the working theory that...

• Commented on JWST and SLS: Dueling Giant Money Sponges

  No one will win in this kerfuffle (if that's what will happen). First, politicians have their hands in it, so that means the entire process will be fubar'd with lobbyists; politicians looking to win points with their backers (financial, followed...

• Commented on Ares 1 Deja Vu?

  Do you actually have proof of such "amateur rocketry" as displayed by the "private jokers?" Without such proof, you just sound like a bitter employee of someone like Boeing, LM, ATK, or someone like that. Using your logic, someone could...

• Commented on SpaceX - Becoming a Market Leader?

  Yours is a plainly racist comment and clearly shows ignorance in terms of what factors affect the success or lack thereof for NASA. You failed to take into account Congress, the public, lobbyists, contractors, and the executive branch. Moreover, you...

• Commented on SpaceX - Becoming a Market Leader?

  If you have any actual proof that Affirmative Action has detrimentally affected NASA, please provide said proof; otherwise your comment sounds only angry and bigoted....

• Commented on NASA Combines ESMD with SOMD to Create HEO

  Great post. What you describe is painfully obvious when someone looks at the numbers of scientists, engineers, and technicians at NASA compared to the number of non-technical staff. It's excruciatingly obvious to anyone at NASA that's, for example, sent a...

• Commented on Rep. Posey - NASA Needs a Clear Vision

  Well, I haven't had the Kool-Aid that you accuse so many of drinking, nor have I had the Kool-Aid that others might, using your same tactics and bias, accuse you of drinking. What's the point of making such statements? Does...

• Commented on MRO News Conference: Water Flowing on Mars

  What facts support the notion that if the initial launch window is missed, the MMRTG will "...be so depleted that MSL won't make it more than 100 feet from where it lands before it dies?" I imagine if you had...

• Commented on A Sad Photo Essay on Human Space Flight (Optimistic Update)

  While giving NASA a good pasting, please don't forget that Congress bears a lot of responsibility for what does and doesn't happen at NASA. To see evidence of this, look no further than the design requirements that Congress and their...

• Commented on MRO News Conference: Water Flowing on Mars

  Please note that after Mariner 4 launched (1964), we had Mars mission launches at least every 4-5 years up to and including Viking 2 in 1975. Granted after Viking 2, there was a 17 year lull until Mars Observer launched...

• Commented on MRO News Conference: Water Flowing on Mars

  Great stuff! Now, NASA just needs to hire people who are really good at selling news like this to the public as being useful and worthy. They really need an outsider (or outsiders) that are great at marketing. While lab...