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Yeah, at least they were doing something worthwhile.
When it’s gotten to the point where I’m thinking, “whew, they didn’t blow up this time. Thank God!”, then it’s time to begin retiring the shuttle fleet.
They were going to shut down NASA, if it weren’t for “the crap stain”, but, YaY! Kennedy!
Do you believe the things you write? George Bush saved NASA? LOL.
If they really want to achieve anything they really need to start looking into ways of getting into space that are better and more efficient than really really big aeroplanes.
Frank, seriously, c’mon. Let’s look at the facts:
Real science at NASA is being slashed in favor of Bush’s “let’s go to Mars, yeah, heh heh, sounds like fun” boondoggle.
What little real science that still goes on is subjected to political censorship by Republican-appointed yes-men who don’t have any background in engineering or science (if they even have college degrees at all).
If this is how Bush “saves” NASA then please, keep him the hell away from now on.
Oliver: George Bush saved NASA?
Then, who did? Pres. Clinton? Spkr. Pelosi?
I know you wouldn’t give Pres. Bush credit, if he threw himself in front of a train to save C.K.
NASA was closing, because it had “no mission”. Yes, President Bush kept it open with his “Let’s go to Mars” speech.
I just read an article, which I probably can’t find, that pointed out that people want to believe that NASA should work on Space exploration, even though many “scientists” do not.
So. Quaker: if you are referring to “There is global warming, there is global warming!” Hansen, just Google his name and see how censored he is
NASA was closing, because it had “no mission”.
You just made that up. You simply just made that up. You are aware that the idea of closing NASA would be news, right? Yeah, that didn’t happen.
The story that I read said that the Shuttle Program was accomplishing nothing, and most scientists couldn’t see any point in it, or space exploration for that matter.
The point of the article was that sometimes you have to give the people what they want, even in the field of science.
I guess I misremembered the scientists’ dissatisfaction with the Shuttle as a desire to shut it down.
Nonetheless, Pres. Bush’s JAN 14 2004 speech is a real ass kicker
Only if you bend over. Like you do every time he wants you to.
Steven Notley put it better. You have to scroll down the screen there.
Frank, our worlds don’t actually revolve around you.
Posted by: Nimrod Gently | Jun 23, 2007 6:33:54 PM
Seems to me they do.
So the best you can do is kind of admit you just made the story up about NASA shutting down and back it up with saying how much you liked a speech Bush gave? A speech, by the way, that was all about re-election and proposed no actual policy or roadmap for a mission to Mars.
This is why people slap at you so hard when you talk, you just can’t just make shit up!!!!
Yes, Frank, I know it does. That’s because you’re a crazyman.
I guess I misremembered the scientists’ dissatisfaction with the Shuttle as a desire to shut it down.
If that’s “making it up” to you, then that’s what I did — I made it up.
Oliver, the people that annoy me have lately shown that they need no excuse.
Why do you apologize for them?
I’m trying to do the best I can, and the number of people truly bugging me has been considerably reduced.
But here you are stirring the flames.
poor, Poor, POOR victimized Frank DiSalle.
“I’ve never said ANYthing to prompt this kind of response from anyone. If only people would just assume what I post is gospel, there wouldn’t be any problems.”
Make that Nimrod Gently, C.S. Strowbridge, Zython, Randt Brown, and Squirrel.
“Oliver, the people that annoy me have lately shown that they need no excuse.”
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“But here you are stirring the flames.”
No, Frank. You have shown that you will look for a fight regardless of the topic.
Oliver writes a post about thanking the astronauts doing an heroically difficult job, and you use it as an excuse to attack the left. (And do so with a lie.)
The shit you get is 100% your fault. And that’s the way you like it.
You are a fucking attention whore. Get the hell off the Internet and talk to your goddamn family before you die alone.
“Make that Nimrod Gently, C.S. Strowbridge, Zython, Randt Brown, and Squirrel.”
So you hate everyone who talks to you. Amazing.
You don’t really call what you d “Talking to me”, do you?
The reason why I mentioned those names,including yours, is because there is hardly a comment I can make that isn’t followed by some nonsense of yours or theirs.
It would seem that, since I can’t make a comment without its being followed by one of yours, then you are spending as much time on the Internet as I am.
Your millions of liberal Christian friends in Canada and the United States must be missing you.
I will soon be returning to school and spending more time on Internet radio, and working my internship.
Then we’ll see if my theory is true: That without me, you have no purpose here. A full 75% to 85% of your comments relate to me.
That will soon be proved.
Two points, Frank:
1.) You completely ignored my point. You came here looking for trouble, that is undeniable based on your first post. The ‘nonsense’ that follows is 100% based on the shit you spew. You are not the victim. Even you must know that by now.
2.) “Then we’ll see if my theory is true: That without me, you have no purpose here. A full 75% to 85% of your comments relate to me.”
That’s cause you are here more often than Oliver. Of course you will be involved in most of my posts, and most of everyone’s posts.
That said, when you do left in the past, however temporary it was, I stuck around and enjoyed the site more.
So if you really want to test your theory, leave. Lurk for a few months and see what happens.
So if you really want to test your theory, leave. Lurk for a few months and see what happens.
Reading problem, Clem?
I said I’ll be spending less time here.
Why don’t you admit that you are trying to prove something to yourself or someone else, by driving me from this blog.
Of all the people who have said terrible things about me, of all the people who have insulted me, of all the people who have simply corrected me, no one has been that arrogant and just plain dumb, as to believe they could just drive me from the blog.
I don’t know why you are obsessed with contradicting everything I say (when, in many cases, there isn’t even a useful purpose), but that is your problem to solve.
I will not leave this blog, simply because you are an obnoxious, self - absorbed, arrogant prick.
Are we clear on that?
Frank, as one of those “scientists” who has a rather educated opinion on NASA’s mission, I know of absolutely no one in the astrophysical community who has advocated shutting down NASA.
What has been emphasized, again and again, rather, is that NASA’s unmanned scientific probes get amazing results time after time, results which not only expand our understanding of the universe, but also invariably capture the public’s immagination. (see: the Hubble Space Telescope and the Mars Rovers, for example)
And yet, what we are being sold by this administration is a bunch of hooey about how it’s now “Time To Go To Mars.” Meanwhile, they are funding this boondoggle by cancelling or scaling back programs from which we actually might learn something about our local space environment, not to mention potentially cancelling an important servicing mission to the HST.
What the scientists at NASA and in the astrophysics community would like to see is the cancellation of that damned space station, which has absolutely no scientific value and serves as a giant vaccuum in space, siphoning off dollars that are needed for real missions.
The manned space program is near and dear to my heart, and its difficult not to be sentimental about it. But the costs in human life and resources have to be taken into account. Manned space flight should be reserved for those mission where it is absolutely necessary, and only after we have exhausted the usefulness of unmanned probes. And we ain’t anywhere near that point in going to Mars.
I will predict right now that there is no way in hell we will actually go to Mars in my lifetime. It’s a feel good distraction and immense waste of resources, nothing more.
Thanks for the diatribe, but I think I made it clear that I was mistaken. Please don’t wake the children!
I don’t know how old you are, so I don’t know whether we’ll go to Mars in your lifetime. If we stop these multinational spacelab set pieces, we have a chance to get there before 2050.
“Reading problem, Clem?
I said I’ll be spending less time here.”
It’s not a matter of reading comprehension, it’s a matter of knowing your history. You’ve said in the past that you were leaving, forever. It didn’t happen then and I don’t think it will happen now. Hell, if you had to choose between your job and starting fights here, you would start fights here.
“Why don’t you admit that you are trying to prove something to yourself or someone else, by driving me from this blog.”
Paranoia. It can be medicated.
While I would be happy if you left for good, I know that will never happen and it was never my goal to make it happen.
And if I wanted you to leave forever, wouldn’t it be simplier to get Oliver to ban you instead?
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