re: Ok, here is an interesting analogy

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Success_Machine — 12/10/2003 1:32:22 AM (archived)

It's gotta be a technology advance that is needed. If 30 years of rocketry hasn't put more than a few people in space, then we have to build more than just rockets. Space is a new hostile environment, and we're trying to conquer it. We can't just walk there. We need a vehicle, a device, a new tool. Ships were originally used to cross the oceans. What do we use today? Something completely different...

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Human Spaceflight - a future without NASA? - phil - 12/9/2003 6:02:57 PM
- Comm on admit it--NASA is just cover for Bush & Rumsfield's plan to Militarize Space N/T (n/t) - Ima Liberal - 12/9/2003 10:18:58 PM
- re: Human Spaceflight - a future without NASA? - Tom Brosz - 12/9/2003 7:39:53 PM
  - Congress says NASA *can* offer competitive prizes. Here's the official link documenting this... - SpaceProjects.com - 12/9/2003 8:01:55 PM
    - I didn't say they "couldn't" offer prizes. I said they "won't." (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 12/10/2003 12:34:17 AM
    - re: Privatization could increase the cost to launch - Success_Machine - 12/9/2003 8:47:46 PM
      - There needs to be COMPETITION between entrepreneurial ventures, NOT merely between corrupt contractors like Boeing. - SpaceProjects.com - 12/9/2003 9:22:39 PM
        
        re: I don't believe that - Success_Machine - 12/9/2003 9:51:05 PM
        
        re: I don't believe that - McFly - 12/9/2003 10:57:43 PM
        
        re: Ok, point taken, but... - Success_Machine - 12/10/2003 12:18:03 AM
        
        re: Yuk, Yuk - Success_Machine - 12/10/2003 12:22:35 AM
        
        Itys a long way between government regulation of homebuilders and haveing a Government Homebuilding Agency - Scott Evil - 12/9/2003 10:25:54 PM
        
        re: What costs more: Building the house, or building the utilities? - Success_Machine - 12/10/2003 12:04:28 AM
        
        In the United States... Utilities and roads leading to housing developments are installed and paid for by the developers - Scott Evil - 12/10/2003 12:38:09 AM
        
        re: Ok, here is an interesting analogy - Success_Machine - 12/10/2003 1:32:22 AM
        
        re: To add to my statement - Success_Machine - 12/9/2003 9:55:50 PM
        
        re: Boeing IS an entrepreneurial venture - Success_Machine - 12/9/2003 10:22:41 PM
        
        Huh? Boeing has lobbied AGAINST tax incentives, and COMPETITIVE prizes. It hired Ms. Druyun (a corrupt Air Force contracting official) before firing her last week, too. - SpaceProjects.com - 12/9/2003 11:07:27 PM
        
        re: They are in it for the money - Success_Machine - 12/10/2003 12:06:20 AM
        
        They're in it for TAXPAYERS' money, not private consumers'. - SpaceProjects.com - 12/10/2003 2:11:21 AM
        
        re: They're ALL in it for taxpayer's money - Success_Machine - 12/10/2003 3:19:43 AM
        
        Perhaps the best test of whether a space company's truly entrepreneurial: would they support NASA's offering competitive prizes. - SpaceProjects.com - 12/10/2003 7:07:07 AM
        
        Your fixation on competitive prizes is pretty naive - Larry J - 12/10/2003 6:29:46 PM
        
        But campaign finance reform prevailed today at the Supreme Ct. level. Unions and huge contractors lost. - SpaceProjects.com - 12/10/2003 9:00:26 PM

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