As for my “grossly ill-informed claims about my writing and journalistic activities.”

Shut me up – show me a link to something you have written about space – recently.

I have not criticized Lou Friedman. Or TPS. I questioned why you would have preemptively gone after them before they had a chance to say anything about the current controversy.

You’ve provided no answers. You’ve respond with a childish tirade against me. You made grossly ill-informed claims about my writing and journalistic activities. And now you’re twisting my words.

Enough.

followed immediately by “I still don’t understand why they should be criticized for it.”

Um, Doug YOU just criticized them! What part of this don’t you understand?

As for Vladislaw, I don’t really understand what you’re saying either, but you raise very interesting points somewhere in there. I think. The last interview I read with Burt Rutan (back in February, I think, by Alan Boyle), he didn’t seem to know precisely what had gone wrong.

You are the one who sent things “off course”.

I seem to recall you bringing my comments about Lou Friedman. Or were you referring to someone else’s comments about Lou?

But, to answer the question: I’ve been covering a range of space stories for the last year or so. Due to time and technical constraints, it’s only been real intense in the last two months. Whether you can call this “writing articles” is….well, yeah I would say so. Not with everything, of course. It’s an interesting medium that exists somewhere short of traditional print journalism but more than just regurgitating stuff.

The whole thing remains a work in progress. And I’m certain I’ll be able to do more with it as we get everything set up properly and I can get a few other things off my desk.

OK, lunch break over….

Scaled Composites is a C O R P O R A T I O N, a corporation is a legal entity (technically, a juristic person) which has a legal personality distinct from those of its members. So Scaled is NOT a person, the corporation couldn’t blow up ANYONE. If those workers were “blown up” as you say, with some sort of malicious intent, you should write about YOUR FACTS that support that charge. So NAME THE NAMES, which person employed by or running scaled pushed a button and blew them up? Last year 30,000 people were killed by FORD, TOYOTA, GM, etc etc etc, why are you not ranting about how the automakers murdered 30000 people?

Humans are pretty smart monkeys but we still have not even managed STAIRS! Humans still fall and break their necks walking up and down stairs, and somehow dealing with rockets NO ONE is going to get blown up?

Gee, where are they?