Comments on: Priorities, priorities http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/02/22/priorities-priorities-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=priorities-priorities-2 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: Donald F. Robertson http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/02/22/priorities-priorities-2/#comment-7027 Wed, 22 Feb 2006 19:42:12 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=854#comment-7027 This is a great example of “another person’s pork. . . .” Astronomers attack human lunar and Mars missions because they are too expensive and useless, and others attack astronomers because their projects are too expensive and who cares about Pluto anyway? At the end of the line, we all just live in blissful ignorance in cheap-and-dirty caves.

— Donald

]]> By: Robert Howard http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/02/22/priorities-priorities-2/#comment-7026 Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:04:42 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=854#comment-7026 Actually the government did purchase well over 1,000 mobile homes for Katrina victims. They are parked unused in Arkansas because federal regulations forbid that kind of housing in most of the impacted area.

]]> By: Alistair http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/02/22/priorities-priorities-2/#comment-7025 Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:51:50 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=854#comment-7025 He’s probably talking about Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander or possibly Beagle 2 (which was British).

Given all the letters to the editor I’ve seen lately, its clear that the public doesn’t have a clue whats going on. I think its high time we had a dedicated website that lists the benefits of space to the public. Call it “spacebenefits.com” or something like that. I’d break it out into three categories of benefits: direct (GPS/Direct TV), developed for space (e.g. medical equipment developed for space that was tweaked for use on the Earth), and indirect (the technology benefitted from money spent on space programs).

Some letters to the editor don’t warrant a response. Still there are those that people read and accept as gospel. If we had a website to point to, then people would accept spending money on space if they could see the benefits on the ground.

]]> By: Jeff Brooks http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/02/22/priorities-priorities-2/#comment-7024 Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:05:25 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=854#comment-7024 And the guy is so uninformed that he apparently thinks the two Mars rovers don’t work!

]]> By: Rand Simberg http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/02/22/priorities-priorities-2/#comment-7023 Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:32:57 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=854#comment-7023 Is it just me, or have letters to the editor in general gotten notably dumber in the past few years? My theory is that the people who used to write intelligent ones are mostly blogging these days.

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