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• Commented on KSC Wants To Buy A Cornish Robot To Greet U.S. Visitors

  I think this wins the "pathetic" prize for the month, at least. Rather than go to the best technical and motion picture minds that the US has, and asking them to come up with something on their dime, strictly as...

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

  Hang around a while. I have a sick feeling it'll get worse a long time before it gets better....

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

  It seems to me that with the gulf of Mexico becoming a vast mire of oil, gas,seawater, and heavens only know what else, that the media "Mind" is somewhat diverted, at the moment, and is likely to be so at...

• Commented on While We All Argue - Let's Not Lose Sight of The Ultimate Goal

  In this day and age where it's become facile and fashionable to pick easy battles and proclaim easy victories. But our hopes and dreams were founded by those who looked upward, and set the bar high, knowing that both the...

• Commented on Griffin: Obama Space Policy = Drivel

  Michael Griffin, proof positive that it takes someone who routinely deals with drivel to recognize drivel. It's because of your "Drivel" Griffy-boy that the US manned space program is the poor boy beggar basket case it is now. Your 15...

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

  Sounds oddly familiar. Oh, yes, now I remember.... Enter the bureaucrats Chancellor Valorum: The point is conceded. Will you defer your motion, to allow a commission to explore the validity of your accusations? Oy vey. This is passing from a...

• Commented on Do These Words Still Work?

  Still all sauce but no steak. Words are important, but they only matter as much as what you're willing to put behind them. You can mess with this kind of stuff forever and a day, and tell yourself that it...

• Commented on New NASA Logo Designs

  Something "wrong" with the product? Sales in the Cellar? Just slap a new logo on the patent medicine bottle and call it "New and Improved" That will fix everything....

• Commented on Apollo Veterans (And Mike Griffin) Plead Their Case

  49 years ago yesterday, the era of Manned Space Exploration began. It began in the midst of a time of fear, and flourished out of America's need to prove herself better than those who opposed her ideologically. John Kennedy supported...

• Commented on Leadership, Vision, and Space Exploration

  I hold very little hope for what President Obama will say. Months ago, I said here that I would believe nothing Obama (Or McCain) had to say. That still holds. I watch for the results. I'm sorry to say I...

• Commented on Moving On To New Things In Space

  I was going to join the discourse, but it is all rather meaningless. Everyone has their vested interests. Until and unless the current political powers that be enunciate a policy, all of this is just filling up disk space. We...