“Just a question, why do you keep making these – yeah what he said postings.”

If you’ll look back at my post you’ll see that it was directed to Rand Simberg. Maybe you’re confused about how blogs work?

People do discuss other peoples comments, whether they like it or not. That’s life.

Now do you have any space-related topics you’d like to discuss, or are you going to keep obsessing about quotation marks?

Yeah they have the BSMD, Blowing Smoke Mission Directorate at NASA and they plan to take several billions from it to fund a huge blowing smoke cylinder or two or three put together. They will call that the SLS, the Smoke Launching System and every one will be happy. Not sure what kind of smoke will come out of it but I am sure we can ask our friends at the Global Warming Mission Directorate if it is green house type. Of course unless they take the money away from the Global Warming Mission Directorate to directly fund the Smoke Launching System. Don’t know. It can happen though.

Whatever.

Just a question, why do you keep making these – yeah what he said postings. You are just making yourself look like a Remora to Rand’s Shark may do his ego good but what is it doing for you?

OK just to repeat the part you left out (one more time) “if you prefer, somebody is “blowing smoke”, it just remains to be seen who”.

Other than that Whatever.

It is you (and they) who apparently don’t understand the budget realities. I understand it perfectly well. It’s silly to talk about whether I “want to” understand it.

Like I said “you just do not want to understand it”. Or if you prefer, somebody is “blowing smoke”, it just remains to be seen who.

The issue isn’t whether or not he “likes” it. It’s whether or not it’s credible. I agree with him that it is not. These people are blowing smoke.

“How do you know whether or not he “likes” that paragraph? What is your point?”

I’m trying to remember if Joe has every contributed anything, or if he just likes to critique?

Nothing wrong with critiquing, but if that’s all someone is here to do, then that kind of makes you wonder why they bother?

Sigh. The part about “find a billion dollars in other places in NASA to pay for those activities”. Do not think that is that difficult to understand, unless of course you just do not want to understand it.