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• Commented on What Would The Class of 2014 Think?

  Generation schmeneration :) Yes, the world changes over time and people aren't all the same. I think that explains things sufficiently. I agree with spaceman. I have to imagine that the people that actually exhibit the negative stereotypes people have...

• Commented on Citizen Science: Will NASA Lead or Fall Behind?

  Maybe you know more than I about that. This Einstein@home project got lots of volunteers. I'd be curious to know how they got the word out. Folding@home has teams that are tracked on the web. Obviously it's a friendly competition....

• Commented on Citizen Science: Will NASA Lead or Fall Behind?

  "Einstein@Home is a World Year of Physics 2005 and an International Year of Astronomy 2009 project supported by the American Physical Society (APS) and by a number of international organizations." Hey there's nothing wrong with distributed computing discoveries coming from...

• Commented on Small Can Sometimes Be Better

  Man the timing on that would have to be ridiculous. Maybe you could have a huge tether flying above to allow more margin but geez. GPS failure on the Orion would not be an option. If you're thinking the Orion...

• Commented on SpaceX Organizes NO on H.R. 5781 Effort

  Ok, he obviously wasn't appealing to the NASA Watch crowd with his emphasis on space tourism (yes it is a weak short term argument). I guess he was using that as a way to get broader support. So ignore the...

• Commented on Kepler Team Needs To Take PR 101

  It sounds like he said, with all of these unconfirmed Earth-like planets, odds are there will be lots of Earth-like planets (uh statistically). As we know, they need confirmation. They have to see a planet-effect twice to know and they're...

• Commented on Someone Hacked @NASA_Astronauts Twitter Account

  Hmm xkcd is down....

• Commented on KSC and JSC Really Want a Shuttle

  While I at first sympathized with the votes for major population centers like NYC or Chicago, I have to agree with CharlesBoyer - Context! There should definitely be one at KSC. I went there when I was a little kid...

• Commented on NASA Reauthorization Bill Provides ATK with a Glimmer of Hope

  "For now. My own gues is that a two stage (Scramjet/Rocket) is probably the way we will make progress over the chemical rocket for manned space flight." Yeah, and we'd better fly back the scramjet stage :) Problem is, right...

• Commented on New NASA Online Game Snubs Macs And Other Operating Systems

  Thanks! Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking. You can start small in MATLAB so it shouldn't be too much of a stretch for a non-technical high school student if there's a teacher or two there pointing the way. I...

• Commented on Asteroid Lutetia Revealed by Rosetta

  Well I think it would be pretty darn amazing seeing a human hopping around on the crazy shapes of this asteroid. It would make for really good TV, that's for sure. Makes you wonder how much mass/gravity it has -...

• Commented on UDPATE: Obama DID NOT "Charge" Bolden To Do Muslim Country Outreach

  Wow, so did he really do this on his own (makes him look really bad now), or did the White House throw him under the bus like the Tony Blair way BenSpaceBrit mentioned (shame on Obama) ? I could see...

• Commented on New NASA Online Game Snubs Macs And Other Operating Systems

  Keith, you're fighting the wrong fight here. We know you're an Apple fan which is fine (competition good), but they still need a little more market share for that attention. Yes, we paid the bill for it (wait... another commenter...

• Commented on Al Jazeera Video Reaction: Angry Arm Waving From The Far Right

  Give me a break. Rush Limbaugh: "Hubba flubba! Hubba flubba flubba hubba flubba! Barack Hussein Obama."...

• Commented on Why Didn't Bolden Just Say So In The First Place?

  I have to say I'm glad the comments on this site are at the high quality level that they are, and that makes me hope that news outlets continue to (and increasingly) get some of their "inside" space related perspective...

• Commented on It Is Time For Charlie Bolden To Stay Home

  wi-kiry-lan: Given Hillary's recent announcement on some foreign channel that the Feds were going to sue arizona it may take a few more incidents before the administration realizes a comment on a foreign channel WILL be seen by americans. Well,...

• Commented on Charlie Bolden: Stealth Middle East Diplomat?

  I have to admit at first I thought, "What the hell??! foremost objective is to reach out to Muslim countries?" Great comments above though. I really do agree with this approach to foreign policy. This type of thing will continue...

• Commented on House Gets Firm With NASA Over Data Request

  They could give them a copy of the Augustine Report, the Budget, any documents on progress of Constellation, data on past cancelled HSF development programs and call it a day. But really, yeah, they should be talking to each other...

• Commented on MSNBC Video: OMEGA, Marathon, and Bolden

  Wow, they actually did a pretty good job getting the situation across to the average CNN viewer and still not dumbing down anything to the point of being inaccurate which is pretty difficult with everything NASA is involved in. Rachel...

• Commented on Charlie Bolden's BP Moment

  This seems like valuable research and a meritorious venture so I don't mind it being continued within NASA (Aeronautics or ISRU) or within DOE, but would hope that this continues either way....

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

  I don't know about you but I'm going to see IMAX Hubble! It just came to my science center :) Anyway, completely agree ASFalcon13. I'm sure they'll get some hoopla, just wait a little. Since movies like Avatar owe a...

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

  You can't have a big news splash early if confirmation is required like in something like Kepler. You wait and have the big news splash later. If you don't wait - either you get no news splash, or you get...

• Commented on Falcon 9 Nails Orbit - First Stage Slams Hard into Atlantic

  Great job Falcon 9 and SpaceX! By the way I noticed the rolling before separation. It was certainly more pronounced afterwards - probably because it's less mass. I did see the exhaust jet control too but not sure what happened...

• Commented on Cool Time-Lapse Video Of Shuttle Processing

  Sweeet! I love the end how they didn't pan up at all for the launch, and the landing bit was nice. Very remarkable video!...

• Commented on Astronauts At The Controls: 2010 Vs "2001" (in 1968)

  Too bad we're not at Jupiter yet but very cool! :)...

• Commented on NASA As A Global Source of Inspiration

  "What is it that they understand about what NASA does" NASA explores space and pushes the future and that kicks ass. New NASA tagline? Most people I know, when I alert them to things NASA is doing, agree too that...

• Commented on Orion Abort Test Photos

  Man the vimeo link for a video in one of the comments under that article is AWESOME....

• Commented on Pad Abort 1 Test Successful

  That waaaasss Awesome! Man, I'd been waiting for the video on that after the SpaceFlightNow article came out saying it was successful. I have no doubt any future manned US rocket will have one very similar....

• Commented on Welcome to Scott Horowitz's Parallel Universe

  "The Constellation program has not yet developed all of the elements of a sound business case needed to justify entry into implementation." I believe a rather significant portion of the entire government doesn't have a sound business case. It's a...

• Commented on Mapping NASA's Current Dysfunctionality

  I can see people thinking "oh that's terrible" but what the hell, if that's how things work, then you might as well document it. If it really doesn't make sense, then it should be revised. I recently updated the process...