Sagan and James Van Allen had the same attiude on HSF: openly hostile. Van Allen was even against cameras on unmanned probes, or so it’s been said.

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/tyson20110120

…But I still say he has the vision, but not necessarily the ability to get down and dirty and administrate.

Heaven knows I respect Neil, he’s ‘s inherited the space scientific popularizer mantle of Carl Sagan, and handles that quite well. But what are his management skills/experience? Engineering skills/experience? Political interfacing skills/experience? Does he support government HSF? (Sagan absolutely didn’t, except for its alleged ‘international cooperation’ value) Does he ‘get’ commercial HSF?

I could be wrong, but I’m not so sure of all that…

Not to mention 20% of our population is over 65; if your career skills are health care, that’s a boom industry here.

And the Disney Dream mega-cruise ship that just arrived, bring another 1,400 jobs.

Five years from now, this county will be booming and all the lies will have been exposed.

“goofy “golf balls fly farther”? Gee”

Actually it is a spinoff. Back in the 80’s & 90’s the golf ball companies put a lot of effort into understanding how the size, shape and placement of dimples on golf balls affected their performance. Big money in them balls, and lots of competition, so they look for any advantages they can find – aerodynamics is just one. Reid must be a golfer…

“The spacecoast will soon be a ghost town thanks to Obama’s pogrom.”

Pogrom

“A pogrom (Russian: погром) is a form of violent riot, a mob attack, either approved or condoned by government or military authorities, directed against a particular group, whether ethnic, religious, or other, and characterized by killings and destruction of their homes and properties, businesses, and religious centres. The term usually carries connotation of spontaneous hatred within the majority population against certain (usually ethnic) minorities, which they see as dangerous and harming the interests of majority.”

So let me get this straight, the space coast is going to become a ghost town because President Obama is going to look the other way as hundreds of thousands of people are going to be murdered by commercial space advocates. Then all the homes will be burned to the ground and all government NASA facilites with destroyed?

I have to agree with what Das Boese wrote:

“That word doesn’t mean what you think it means.
It’s a good idea to be aware of historical context and connotations of words before you carelessly slap them in a sentence for dramatic effect.”

It is one thing to be a fan, it is another to be in denial….

LOL that from a person who had the Falcon 9 second stage spinning out of control…

Robert G. Oler

If my wildest dreams come true, zombie Constellation will already be put to rest, SpaceX will have made great success fulfilling their cargo contract and making progress on crew capabilities. NASA will be primed to push forward with a robust science and exploration agenda, focusing on the missions themselves and getting good ‘ole fashioned American industry to get us there. If Bolden is the best man for the job, so be it, but I think someone with a more scientific background would do better for the new direction. Is Neil deGrasse Tyson looking for a job?

If my darkest nightmares come to be, we will have committed ourselves to the money pit that is SLS. A new Republican controlled/dead-locked government is looking for money to pay off THEIR debts to the Chinese, and the name of the game is “scorched Earth!” We pull the rug out from under our ISS partners and succeed our leadership in space to the Chinese, maybe in exchange for a little debt reduction. NASA starts to let out a death knell and with an economy still in the stink hole, commercial space has no demand to supply.

… That’s worst case scenario… it can’t get that bad… could it?