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re: To add to my statement
re: Boeing IS an entrepreneurial venture
Success_Machine
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12/9/2003 10:22:41 PM
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Human Spaceflight - a future without NASA?
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phil
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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
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Ima Liberal
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12/9/2003 10:18:58 PM
re: Human Spaceflight - a future without NASA?
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Tom Brosz
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12/9/2003 7:39:53 PM
Congress says NASA *can* offer competitive prizes. Here's the official link documenting this...
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SpaceProjects.com
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12/9/2003 8:01:55 PM
I didn't say they "couldn't" offer prizes. I said they "won't."
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Tom Brosz
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12/10/2003 12:34:17 AM
re: Privatization could increase the cost to launch
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Success_Machine
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12/9/2003 8:47:46 PM
There needs to be COMPETITION between entrepreneurial ventures, NOT merely between corrupt contractors like Boeing.
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SpaceProjects.com
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12/9/2003 9:22:39 PM
re: I don't believe that
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Success_Machine
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12/9/2003 9:51:05 PM
re: I don't believe that
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McFly
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12/9/2003 10:57:43 PM
re: Ok, point taken, but...
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Success_Machine
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12/10/2003 12:18:03 AM
re: Yuk, Yuk
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Success_Machine
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12/10/2003 12:22:35 AM
Itys a long way between government regulation of homebuilders and haveing a Government Homebuilding Agency
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Scott Evil
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12/9/2003 10:25:54 PM
re: What costs more: Building the house, or building the utilities?
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Success_Machine
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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
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Scott Evil
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12/10/2003 12:38:09 AM
re: Ok, here is an interesting analogy
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Success_Machine
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12/10/2003 1:32:22 AM
re: To add to my statement
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Success_Machine
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12/9/2003 9:55:50 PM
re: Boeing IS an entrepreneurial venture
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Success_Machine
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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.
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SpaceProjects.com
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12/9/2003 11:07:27 PM
re: They are in it for the money
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Success_Machine
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12/10/2003 12:06:20 AM
They're in it for TAXPAYERS' money, not private consumers'.
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SpaceProjects.com
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12/10/2003 2:11:21 AM
re: They're ALL in it for taxpayer's money
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Success_Machine
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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.
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SpaceProjects.com
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12/10/2003 7:07:07 AM
Your fixation on competitive prizes is pretty naive
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Larry J
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12/10/2003 6:29:46 PM
But campaign finance reform prevailed today at the Supreme Ct. level. Unions and huge contractors lost.
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SpaceProjects.com
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12/10/2003 9:00:26 PM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.