“With all due respect … I’ve said it many times, and it’s unfortunate that no one listens, but the best way to deal with the trolls is to ignore them.”

Even that doesn’t always work (ignoring them), since now they are blasting each other and keeping the threads going.

Usually when I decide to engage it’s in response to a topic I want to discuss with the audience in general, and not necessarily with the normally closed-minded trolls.

‘With all due respect,’–perhaps you haven’t caught on- folks listen to your POV… it’s just nobody attaches any value to it. The atmosphere of Jupiter is dense, as well.

It use to be Whittington’s position that a project like SLS was a bad thing. He has moved as his politics dictate, but he was once against what he is now for RGO

There are many Tea Party groups. Most are local as all politics is local. There are also state and national coordinators. However, TEA Party in Space is a national organization. We are non-partisan. We work inside NASA states and also outside of NASA states. We work with state coordinators as we plan for the 2012 election so the Tea Party has a sound space platform which you can see on our website.

And yes, it is our position that SLS violates the Tea Party core values of fiscal responsibility. The fact that we have wasted billions and have nothing to show for it speaks volumes. So does JWST for that matter.

Sorry I did not reply sooner, but frankly, I am just too busy to respond to a few trolls who try to discredit the Tea Party. Jeff’s sight is awesome and I am thankful to post here. I just wish I had more time to post valuable content from time to time…

…now back to NewSpace2011 and the sub-orbital panel.

Respectfully,
Andrew Gasser
TEA Party in Space

You could fund one of their modules with a fraction of the annual ISS budget. A modest space station with support for space tourism makes infinitely more sense than the international white elephant orbiting now. Fortunately for the budget, ISS has only a slim chance of making it to 2020. A major malfunction of the kind that has already occurred will bring it down.

Every point the Dow drops pushes space further down the list of national priorities.

I am watching carefully, ever ready to jump in and be ‘greedy when others are fearful’.

You made a grand exit a few months ago (remember that?) and no one missed you. We still had a couple of trolls around, but at least it was one less classless fool.

With all due respect … I’ve said it many times, and it’s unfortunate that no one listens, but the best way to deal with the trolls is to ignore them. If they get no response, it drives them batty as you deny them the attention they want. I don’t respond when certain trolls post insults attacking me personally. I wish everyone else would follow the same policy.

the title says it all…this is the final “end” game for SLS

I’m generally leery of anything that shows up on NASASpaceflight.com since they seem to be rah-rah for the status quo … But in any case, if one reads through the article it still says the first unmanned flight will be in December 2017, an unmanned mission to send Orion around the Moon.

(Some wags will no doubt suggest it be a one-way trip …)

The manned mission to orbit the Moon would be August 2021.

Of course, all of this is theoretical. It’s up to Congress to approve it, and they haven’t, which is why I wouldn’t take this article too seriously. And the article does say these dates are based on a worst-case poor-funding scenario.

The dates do generally align with what Charlie said in Congressional testimony recently.

NASA has not lost the ability to orbit astronauts for the first time in 50 years. It has lost the ability to do so for the first time in 30 years.

Depends on how one defines “ability.” Shuttle was down twice, in the mid-1980s after Challenger and mid-2000s after Columbia. In fact, after the latter we relied on the Russians for 2 1/2 years.

It’s just another lie made up by the people trying to protect the porking status quo.

http://www.tgdaily.com/space-features/57520-russia-says-it-will-sink-the-international-space-station