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A new planet
Raoul
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7/9/2004 4:27:17 PM
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A new planet
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Raoul
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7/9/2004 4:27:17 PM
Shouldn't the NSF offer competitive prizes for finding these things?
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~tax leech
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7/9/2004 4:59:43 PM
Do you understand ANYTHING about science?
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R.L.
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7/10/2004 3:43:31 PM
R.L., why do you maliciously fear having to win PRIZES in order to get to leech more of our tax dollars?
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~tax leech
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7/11/2004 4:43:31 PM
You demonstrate your stupidity better than I can... You obviously have NO CLUE as to how research dollars are awarded
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R.L.
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7/11/2004 11:13:00 PM
While we're on the topic of stupidity...
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E.P. Grondine
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7/14/2004 2:05:39 AM
Funny thing is, E.P. ....
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R.L.
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7/14/2004 8:22:28 AM
The insane thing is, R.L. ...
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E.P. Grondine
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7/14/2004 3:01:57 PM
You're right, RL's sociopathic posts do make us space fans seem like the fringe element in our democracy.
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~tax leech
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7/14/2004 6:30:28 PM
R.L.'s got a point...
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Tom Brosz
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7/12/2004 12:20:41 AM
Prizes reward RESULTS and leverage 40 times their amount in investment pursuing them.
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~tax leech
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7/12/2004 2:40:01 AM
Everyone, please read Rich's second paragraph above... I think that says it all about who this guy is
(n/t)
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R.L.
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7/12/2004 9:02:50 AM
You're right (for once). Unlike you, Rich is no effiminate, bored, tax-leeching coward.
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~tax leech
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7/12/2004 6:28:27 PM
Doesn't your nonsequitur-laden, substanceless response validate my hypothesis?
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~tax leech
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7/11/2004 11:42:49 PM
I never lied on this you moron... LISTEN CAREFULLY KIDDO
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R.L.
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7/12/2004 10:20:04 PM
So you get paid with government contract money but aren't a tax leech. I see.
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~tax leech
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7/13/2004 1:22:48 AM
Paid by government = tax leech? In DC maybe - but not in my universe
(n/t)
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Daniel
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7/13/2004 5:53:16 AM
As if your childishly insecure challenge to 'wrasle' me isnt a non sequitur?
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R.L.
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7/12/2004 10:24:57 AM
no it doesn't - your own points are virtually lost in vitriolic noise
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Daniel L
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7/12/2004 8:04:56 AM
Daniel, can you THINK about the rubbish that you're spewing in defense of tax-leeching R.L.?
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~tax leech
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7/12/2004 6:25:06 PM
he was wrong to abuse you - and vice versa
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Daniel
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7/13/2004 5:09:41 AM
You chose the wrong day to slander me as lazy, you twit!
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R.L.
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7/12/2004 8:05:50 PM
6 straight days at14,000 feet, 2/3rd atmospheric pressure, and likely to do the same for the next 4 days so whats your work schedule like, Rich?
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R.L.
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7/12/2004 8:36:09 PM
Some of us have to work to pay your grant-supported salary, tax-leech.
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~tax leech
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7/13/2004 4:23:47 AM
You are deliberately lying and claimin I am saying the opposite of what I said- there is no point debating the insane
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R.L.
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7/13/2004 7:52:45 PM
Ah, so prizes are fine as long as YOU don't have to compete for any to get paid? How CONVEEEENIENT.
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~tax leech
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7/14/2004 2:14:11 AM
Actually, Daniel, the last time I was paid by 'The government' was when I was a grad student...
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R.L.
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7/12/2004 10:09:54 AM
R.L., why don't you take your sissy fear of prizes proponents to the FLAME BOARD?
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~tax leech
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7/12/2004 6:38:02 PM
Anyone else here think that maybe this guy is in need of medication?
(n/t)
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R.L.
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7/12/2004 8:57:29 PM
No, I just think he's an angry ideologue
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Daniel
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7/13/2004 5:38:40 AM
Lori Garver (a Clinton official) proposed prizes while at NASA HQ. This reform isn't political; it's patriotic.
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~tax leech
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7/13/2004 6:08:43 PM
Your fellow tax leeches, surely. They fear pro-entrepreneurial reforms.
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~tax leech
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7/13/2004 1:30:08 AM
you shouldn't feel you need to explain that, though
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Daniel
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7/12/2004 10:56:50 AM
That's B.S. Tax leeches thwart the private sector. Ask MirCorp & Beal.
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~tax leech
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7/12/2004 6:19:55 PM
I do get your point
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Daniel
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7/13/2004 5:28:35 AM
That's B.S. Tax leeches thwart the private sector. Ask MirCorp.
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~tax leech
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7/12/2004 6:19:39 PM
re: International
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Raoul
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7/9/2004 5:28:08 PM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.