Comments on: Briefly noted: committee hearing, Griffin talks http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/05/07/briefly-noted-committee-hearing-griffin-talks/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=briefly-noted-committee-hearing-griffin-talks 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: Hearing on Limits of Executive Power: Vincent Bugliosi | legal-legal http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/05/07/briefly-noted-committee-hearing-griffin-talks/#comment-302870 Fri, 14 May 2010 01:01:37 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3455#comment-302870 […] Space Politics » Briefly noted: committee hearing, Griffin talks […]

]]> By: Rand Simberg http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/05/07/briefly-noted-committee-hearing-griffin-talks/#comment-302507 Wed, 12 May 2010 19:29:26 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3455#comment-302507 You’d think that all those Trekkies would actually want to see some of their big interstellar dreams become reality for once in their lives!

You’d only think that if you were unfamiliar with them. Most Trek people are uninterested in space. They’re more into fantasy.

]]> By: Chris Castro http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/05/07/briefly-noted-committee-hearing-griffin-talks/#comment-302419 Wed, 12 May 2010 07:19:12 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3455#comment-302419 Speaking of Captain Kirk, have you all noticed the total silence of the Sci-Fi community in all this save-or-kill-Constellation debate?? You’d think that all those Trekkies would actually want to see some of their big interstellar dreams become reality for once in their lives! You’d think that they’d be clamoring to rescue this deep space initiative, at those conventions that they always hold! (Let’s make Science Fiction real…..) But no. Alas, all those Star Trek, Star Wars, & Avatar fans are far too wrapped up in merely being entertained, than to actually care about REAL space exploration! [Hey, Sci-Fi fans: NASA is NEVER going to discover a race of blue-skinned cat-people, as long as it stays trapped in LEO!]

]]> By: Ferris Valyn http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/05/07/briefly-noted-committee-hearing-griffin-talks/#comment-302268 Tue, 11 May 2010 16:07:25 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3455#comment-302268 Rand,

Maybe he is going for a Kirk/Shatner imperssonation

Because HE’s goT To!!!!

]]> By: brobof http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/05/07/briefly-noted-committee-hearing-griffin-talks/#comment-302249 Tue, 11 May 2010 15:08:14 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3455#comment-302249 Marcel F. Williams wrote @ May 9th, 2010 at 9:44 pm
brobof wrote @ May 7th, 2010 at 8:17 pm refers. ON THIS THREAD
Short term memory loss or wilful ignorance. Either way Marcel: Doh!

]]> By: Rand Simberg http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/05/07/briefly-noted-committee-hearing-griffin-talks/#comment-302248 Tue, 11 May 2010 15:03:44 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3455#comment-302248 You know, Chris, nonsense doesn’t become sensible by adding lots of capital letters and exclamation marks to it.

]]> By: Chris Castro http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/05/07/briefly-noted-committee-hearing-griffin-talks/#comment-302172 Tue, 11 May 2010 07:47:03 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3455#comment-302172 @ Rand Simberg…..Flexible Path is a big excuse for us to NOT do anything! To think small all over again, and to STAY stuck in LEO for another decade or two more! Constellation is about getting us back to the frontier, for another round of daring exploration on another world. A call for us to expand the human presence there, and do much more than merely reach the place again. We’re back to the Moon to stay, this time, because the Altair lander will be capable of emplacing hab modules there. Flexible Path throws our attention in way too many directions all at once, and will lead to dead-end, big-brag, “Look, we got there first!” jaunts to asteroids, where believe you me, NO bases will be built, and NO industrial infrastructure will emerge ever. Because now, according to Flexible Path: We can NEVER go back to where we’ve been. Every destination now has to be 100% virgin territory, or we condemn it as passe & not worth a second look. Flexible Path leads to nothing—but the euphoria about being the first to go anyplace! A string of euphoric firsts will NOT lead to base emplacement NOR industrial development!

]]> By: Space Politics » Briefly noted: committee hearing, Griffin talks | Commercial Space Travel http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/05/07/briefly-noted-committee-hearing-griffin-talks/#comment-302111 Tue, 11 May 2010 03:27:06 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3455#comment-302111 […] the original here: Space Politics » Briefly noted: committee hearing, Griffin talks Share and […]

]]> By: Robert G. Oler http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/05/07/briefly-noted-committee-hearing-griffin-talks/#comment-302084 Tue, 11 May 2010 01:11:47 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3455#comment-302084 Marcel F. Williams wrote @ May 10th, 2010 at 6:45 pm

Please forgive me but how can anyone take you seriously when you think an amateur rocket company like Space X knows a lot more about space travel than NASA, Boeing, and Lockheed, and Energia.

how can anyone take you seriously when you call a company that has invested hundreds of millions in a potential product “amateur rocket company”.

sorry…you are just a step above a mightywind

sad

Robert G. Oler

]]> By: Starjock http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/05/07/briefly-noted-committee-hearing-griffin-talks/#comment-302079 Tue, 11 May 2010 00:39:17 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3455#comment-302079 Has a “Witness List” been posted yet for the Senate Hearings on Wednesday?

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