Comments on: Air Force seeks to dismiss SpaceX EELV suit

By: ART

ART — Sun, 31 Aug 2014 04:55:11 +0000

Funny Dick,
When you were describing “Progressive Democrat” evils, I was able to substitute “Right wing fascist nutjob” and agree with your every statement.
It is quite amazing to note the steadfastness of the corporate wags posting here. Like arguing evolution with a Alabama baptist.
Oh lawyers, financiers, insurance salesmen, preachers and sellers of crack cocaine! Fear the rise of the socially and business-capable Ubergeek! Your day has ended, and you know it not.
I wonder if much of this current situation has to do with the fact that SpaceX has no staff mouthpiece? Naturally items of no import, high cost, high mass and no physical use are an anathema to the average hyperintelligent (typically liberal) Geek, but we geeks do have some Nerd-like tendencies toward naivety. In our cloisters of reason and mutual respect we often forget how the typical knuckle-dragging barbarian has a less broad view of who-all qualify as members of his tribe, and just how low they will drag others in a dogged attempt to stay on top.
Seriously, the geeks are really starting to show their stuff, and under their own flags. Hopefully this means a way out for some of us. No more building Spaze Shittles as the only game in town if you want a job lighting rockets. You can get out from under the smelly ass of the industrial military complex heirs, and get your own product out…or sign up with some hard-hitting Geek Inc. and mercilessly torch the “competition”.
It’s really nice to see someone that actually CREATES something put the screws to the Admin Drone Co.
Must be horrible…that “average intelligence” thing. Well, worry not. Intelligence is actually not the best proven survival strategy. I mean, we haven’t been at it very long…you know, kinda like SpaceX.

By: Dark Blue Nine

Dark Blue Nine — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 02:33:35 +0000

“And now Space News is reporting that ULA has filed a Motion to Dismiss.”

Which ULA never had standing to file in the first place.

By: Dark Blue Nine

Dark Blue Nine — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 02:31:46 +0000

“Wrong.”

Sorry, right:

â€œSpaceX scores an early win in its lawsuit against the US governmentâ€

http://qz.com/240530/spacex-scores-an-early-win-in-its-lawsuit-against-the-government/#/h/89760,2/

â€œSpaceX lawsuit against ULA can go forward; sides ordered to prep for mediationâ€

http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/blog/boosters_bits/2014/07/spacex-lawsuit-against-ula-can-go-forward-sides.html

â€œJudge Orders Mediation for SpaceX, U.S. Air Forceâ€

http://www.spacenews.com/article/military-space/41391judge-orders-mediation-for-spacex-us-air-force

By: Dark Blue Nine

Dark Blue Nine — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 02:30:24 +0000

“Youâ€™re both wrong. I just read through the Motion to Dismiss. Excellent research and argument by USAF attorneys. Itâ€™s a very effective Motion and in my opinion Space X is going to get hammered.”

In the future, remind both of us not to rely on your “opinion”:

“SpaceX scores an early win in its lawsuit against the US government”

http://qz.com/240530/spacex-scores-an-early-win-in-its-lawsuit-against-the-government/#/h/89760,2/

“SpaceX lawsuit against ULA can go forward; sides ordered to prep for mediation”

http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/blog/boosters_bits/2014/07/spacex-lawsuit-against-ula-can-go-forward-sides.html

“Judge Orders Mediation for SpaceX, U.S. Air Force”

http://www.spacenews.com/article/military-space/41391judge-orders-mediation-for-spacex-us-air-force

By: Dick Eagleson

Dick Eagleson — Sun, 13 Jul 2014 00:33:20 +0000

Russia is an autocracy. What the autocrats say, goes. Mr. Rogozin, a junior flunky-type autocrat who seems to hold, among others, the portfolio of Tweeer-in-Chief for the Russian governnment, has said we’re not getting any more RD-180’s. The head autocrat, Gospodin Putin, has not seen fit to publicly contradict his stooge. I’m inclined to take them at their word. As ULA is said to be expecting at least two more modest shipments of RD-180’s in the next five months, we’ll know whose views are “fantasy” fairly soon I’d say. I like my chances on this one.

By: Mader Levap

Mader Levap — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 18:46:55 +0000

What the hell you are talking about?

Protip: sanction policy is a little more involved than few Twitters sent by russian thug with unhealthy affection to trampolines. Even in Russia.

Right now, there are no actual Russian sanctions involving rocket engines and your claims are just fantasy.

By: Dick Eagleson

Dick Eagleson — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 01:59:33 +0000

That there are ethnically-Russian residents of Ukraine who would like to see at least their own parts of Ukraine returned to Russian sovereignty is not fictional. The idea that these people are justified in what amounts to insurrection and treason because of “oppression” is what is fictional. It isn’t even obvious that such people constitute a majority within their own communities. But they have certainly proven able to make a lot of trouble, at least for awhile. That’s especially so if aided and abetted by GRU and Spetznaz troops in civilian clothes coming over the Russian border. The fact that the Ukraine central government has been getting the upper hand in recent days is at least suggestive that the earlier aggressions and violence were perpetrated by fair-weather insurgents who are now melting away in the face of real opposition and an actual likelihood of having to face combat and not just photo-ops for pro-Russian media.

As for links to representative coverage of matters along the Russia-Ukraine border, just put some search predicate like “Pro-Russian insurgents eastern Ukraine” into your favorite search engine.

By: pathfinder_01

pathfinder_01 — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 02:17:19 +0000

I would too if I were ULA, the first thing to do is try to get an lawsuit dismissed.

By: Michael J. Listner

Michael J. Listner — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 22:57:34 +0000

And now Space News is reporting that ULA has filed a Motion to Dismiss.

By: E,P, Grondine

E,P, Grondine — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 15:55:58 +0000

Hi Dick –

“abandon the fiction that the current unrest is all the work of grassroots â€œoppressedâ€ Russians.”

Do you have a source for your assertion that it is a fiction?