In the ER thread, I thought there was a good discussion going on that involved treaties, international politics and their role in space exploration as compared to historical sea and land exploration. Those are issues we will face in the future.

I moved the thread not because of the politics, but because I thought that bringing up Marxism was so off-topic as to start another flame war and lose the important issue raised about quality workers at NASA. It appears others thought so too.

I read GB's post this morning, and went on a couple of mile hike in the mountians. During the hike I decided I was going to move the thread (not delete it) and reconstruct the original post.

When I got back from this wonderful hike, the board was full of Yeti screams.

So I did what I was going to do. No posts were deleted and I let everyone know where they went.

I hope the conversation of what level of politics people can stand on the Space Board reaches some sort of concensus.