[meteorite-list] Former Astronaut Glenn Criticizes Chimp Space Plan

From: j.divelbiss_at_att.net <j.divelbiss_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:32:46 2004
Message-ID: <030520041725.23969.8b7_at_att.net>

John, Randy and others,

I too am not a big fan of politics on the list but in this case we have an opinion from someone, John Glenn, who feels the proposed program for NASA is off based. He offers up good questions.

1. Should we limit funds for important research that is already in the works?
2. Do we need to go to the moon first before a Mars trip is possible?

Both good questions, can we/will we resolve on the list...no. But a discussion of this type is certainly worthy of a few comments when compared to some of the other nonsense we have posted.

Randy...I think it is the "chimp" reference to the President in the subject line that gets folks worked up.

John

> Randy and List,
> It seems that this list suffers from a double standard from time to
> time. Personally, I think that issues pertaining to the USA space program
> deserve more bandwidth and attention on this list than threads like
> "uhuhuhuhuh" and the like. If you want to enforce the letter of Art's
> laws, most of Ron Baalke's posts shouldn't appear here, after all, what do
> Mars probes have to do with meteorites? Don't get me wrong, I enjoy
> Baalke's posts and hope they continue to appear on this forum.
> As caustic as Randy can be at times I think he makes a good point on this
> issue. I'd much rather toss his subject around for a few days instead of
> watching Round 75 of the meteorite ego wars or read one more theory about
> the evolution of a nonsensical word.
>
>
> Have a great weekend,
> John Gwilliam
> At 05:30 AM 3/5/2004 -0800, Randy aka Randy Mils wrote:
>
> >Am I the ony one that finds it sad that the opinion of former Astronaut
> >John Glenn and the first American to orbit the earth is considered by some
> >list members to be not proper for posting on this list but the discussion
> >of "uhuhuhuhuh" and other non-words is?
> >
> >Randy
> > >From: "Bernhard \"Rendelius\" Rems"
> > >To:
> > >Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] Former Astronaut Glenn Criticizes Bush
> > Space Plan
> > >Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 12:06:07 +0100
> > >
> > >". where you should be spewing your lefty crap"
> > >
> > >
> > >So please keep your "righty crap" to yourself as well. Thank you.
> > >
> > > _____
> > >
> > >Best regards,
> > >Bernhard "Rendelius" Rems
> > >
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