Comments on: Checking in on Mr. Lasker http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/04/07/checking-in-on-mr-lasker/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=checking-in-on-mr-lasker 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: Mike Puckett http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/04/07/checking-in-on-mr-lasker/#comment-7574 Wed, 12 Apr 2006 03:36:05 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=926#comment-7574 Haliburton is considered to build the drill for Mars core samples because they have expertise at this sort of endeavor that others lack.

Want a tire? Call BF Goodrich, Want a Geologic core drill? Call Haliburton.

I suppose Mr. Gagnon must have surrendered Occam’s Razor at the door when he was protomoted to full Moonbat.

]]> By: Monte Davis http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/04/07/checking-in-on-mr-lasker/#comment-7573 Fri, 07 Apr 2006 18:06:49 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=926#comment-7573 There’s a neat symmetry to it, in that for ~45 years comm, remote sensing and now navigation/location have been the only space applications that have paid for themselves — whether in the commercial market or the pseudo-market of what DoD actually buys and launches, as distinct from zoomy slide shows.

In other words, Gagnon’s crew will actually have something to worry about only when and if the rest of us actually have CATS.

]]> By: Brian http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/04/07/checking-in-on-mr-lasker/#comment-7572 Fri, 07 Apr 2006 12:42:12 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=926#comment-7572 collaborated to monitor and plant moles within an international space-peace activist group”

Hunh. When I discovered Bruce Gagnon’s activist group I was curious enough to join their Yahoo mail list. I made no secret of my interests or affiliation – and was promptly branded a spy from big aerospace. Very amusing as Liftport at that time was perhaps eight people.

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