Comments on: Ignorance is no obstacle to punditry

By: Veritas

Veritas — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:47:36 +0000

“the republican candidates comments and opinions concerning space exploration is irrelevant. None of them are going to win in 2008.”

Sounds a lot like:

“Evacuate? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances!”

Yes, the Republicans are going to lose the same way we lost in Iraq……….wait….

By: al Fansome

al Fansome — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 00:22:38 +0000

JINCHI: There was more than just one â€œbridge to nowhereâ€ in Congressâ€™ pork-barrel spending bills, why not pick a couple of those instead?

Dear Jinchi,

Please list what you would cut, and add up the numbers.

It is easy to talk in platitudes. It is hard to point out specifics.

You will quickly learn a few facts:

1) The “bridge to nowhere” — the project that the large majority of the people agree is government waste — is a rare bird. This bird is very hard to find, the total numbers do not add up to that much, and every other interest group wants to eliminate it to pay for its select interest.

2) Most often, what is one person’s waste, is another person’s “very important investment”. Obama and you illustrate this principle quite nicely.

– Al

By: John Cobarruvias

John Cobarruvias — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 22:15:51 +0000

the republican candidates comments and opinions concerning space exploration is irrelevant. None of them are going to win in 2008.

They are having trouble even winning their own primary against “Non of the Above”

By: Habitat Hermit

Habitat Hermit — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 20:34:05 +0000

I see Ferris Valyn fighting the good fight over in the comments section of Carpetbagger as most of the other comments there indicate is sorely needed (Jen Flowers' "Without curiosity we all become Republicans." is hilariously atrocious and yet she's seems among the more sensible ones there). No-one has done space solar power for Earth use yet. Until anyone does (has Mitsubishi Electric given up on Solarbird?) it might be wise not to oversell space based solar power for Earth use (haven't we been down that road multiple times already?). NASA managed to complete the Lunar Prospector mission (launch and everything else) for 63 million dollars. Surely someone, somewhere, NASA or other, can manage to make a SSP demonstration transmitting to Earth for under 100 million? Perhaps even a lot less but I'm no engineer (which ties in nicely with the topic title ^_^)

By: Jinchi

Jinchi — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:58:55 +0000

You’d think with all the projects we’re actually wasting money on Obama would have picked something really wasteful to cut, instead of an agency on the leading edge of science, technology and exploration.

There was more than just one “bridge to nowhere” in Congress’ pork-barrel spending bills, why not pick a couple of those instead?

By: cIclops

cIclops — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 06:50:17 +0000

Once again Clinton leads the way in the space arena by fully supporting Constellation. Obama seems to suffer from the same misperception of NASA that the public does by assuming it has enormous budget pockets, pockets that can be easily picked to finance his pet project. Just as with the design of Constellation, it’s early days so don’t expect to hear much about space policy until after the primaries.