Comments on: House budget debate continues http://www.spacepolitics.com/2005/06/16/house-budget-debate-continues/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=house-budget-debate-continues Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Greg Kuperberg http://www.spacepolitics.com/2005/06/16/house-budget-debate-continues/#comment-3288 Sun, 19 Jun 2005 23:29:48 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=577#comment-3288 Against the backdrop of a failing $40 billion space station, Chocola’s tactic is a cynical and pathetic exercise in penny wisdom and grand foolishness. It’s like a car salesman who overcharges you $10,000 for an utterly impractical SUV, and steals your credit card number; but gives you a double refund when your quarter jams in his vending machine to show you how fair he is.

On the other hand, Laurie Anderson doesn’t impress me and I really don’t care whether NASA uses her for outreach. In fact, I think that NASA’s outreach in general is overfunded and sometimes dishonest. I note that some other people here think that NASA should do more outreach.

]]> By: Rand Simberg http://www.spacepolitics.com/2005/06/16/house-budget-debate-continues/#comment-3287 Thu, 16 Jun 2005 17:04:04 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=577#comment-3287 Great. So they’ll just give the “artist in residence” a different title.

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