Douglas Mallette

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• Commented on Avatar: A Stunning New World That NASA Continues to Ignore

  Mark - I saw it more as a story about anti-corporate greed than anti-technology. Technology just happened to be part of the story. It's the same story as Dances With Wolves, and that story didn't have advanced technology. I do...

• Commented on Participatory Journalism

  I doubt you'll get a reply, but I think this is a great point! Since when does being a journalist mean they have to be inhuman as well. Who is this Morrie Goodman schmuck anyway? My assumption is that he's...

• Commented on Avatar: A Stunning New World That NASA Continues to Ignore

  Heinrich - The catch with your argument is that the fiction part of Avatar (the space exploration bit) isn't that far off from reality, but we just aren't doing it. It's one excuse after another, generally related to budgets and...

• Commented on Avatar: A Stunning New World That NASA Continues to Ignore

  ...superficial unnuanced history. - Bob, history is littered with real cases of the exploitation of land and resources by corporations for the sole purpose of profits and material gain. So your statement right away is slightly off from real world...

• Commented on Avatar: A Stunning New World That NASA Continues to Ignore

  David - I took a slightly different twist on the "message" of the movie. I totally see where you're coming from though, but what about this factor: The pursuit of profit (money) at all costs is detrimental to the human...

• Commented on Avatar: A Stunning New World That NASA Continues to Ignore

  NASA communications have been lacking for a long, long time. We all know this to be true. Why should their lack of response to Avatar be any different? Congress doesn't get it. The people in charge of NASA don't get...

• Commented on New Poll Shows Support For Space Funding Cuts

  Just goes to show how ignorant people are with respect to how important the space industry is to the entire American economy as a whole. All they see are shuttle launches a few times a year, not everything else, and...

• Commented on Bolden Meets With Obama

  I'm tired of guessing. I never know what this President will do. I know what I want, but I'm sure it will be a far cry from what is done....

• Commented on Desperate in Alabama

  Keith, I couldn't agree more. What a hypocritical jackass. I don't care if he is a Senator, he's a schmuck. There were also "government space" people involved in the Commission, so what. He just doesn't like the findings....

• Commented on More Mars Meteorite ALH84001 Discoveries Published (Update)

  That's one of the biggest problems with NASA, the right hand and left hand don't know what each other is doing. NASA's communications skills are severely lacking....

• Commented on Creating Starfleet Academy (Ongoing)

  Here's my fly in the ointment: Starfleet is a global international system. Hell, it's interplanetary, but we'll leave the Sci-fi part out of it for the sake of argument. Under current federal restrictions, we can't share the specs of a...