It’s amusing to read the comments at my Pajamas Media piece on ignorance about the old and new space policies, which simply make the case for my thesis, albeit unwittingly.
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It’s amusing to read the comments at my Pajamas Media piece on ignorance about the old and new space policies, which simply make the case for my thesis, albeit unwittingly.
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Everyone is way too busy talking about their own opinions. They’re so busy talking they’re not even looking at what’s actually happening. They get a tiny summary from a single news source and use that to decide for/against. There’s no fixing it.
My impression was that many of them were replying to the piece without reading it, certainly without understanding it.
If they are replying to the peice without reading it, then there’s your answer; the commentators are members of congress. 🙂
Seriously though; than you for all you’ve done, with this article and many before, to make this issue understandable for many of us.
This is a response to both this and your “New Atlantis” piece. Both outlined well the “how we got here” and “where we need to go”. The failure of both pieces, in my mind, is your lack of addressing the more prosaic action items that are necessary to acheive the “where we need to go”.
Let me put it another way: we are where we are because the primary obstacles to becoming a robust space-faring Nation are:
1.Miss-spending and miss-allocation of limited national resources on a monopolistic bureaucracy;
2.a govt. monopoly on regulation of, access to, and exploitation/development of, the frontier.
So, while I agree with 99% of both articles, I would love to see an article that outlines the 3-to-6 political actions that need to take place to move away the “here” to get to the “where we need to go”. This is not simply a matter of following the “Obama” plan. Rather, it is a matter of taking of the opportunity given by a Democrat President in closing the raison d’tre of NASA as white-collar-welfare-agency and transform the American space program into a NASA that explores and maps the frontier, and a commercial space industry that does everything else from dirtside to the edge of the frontier.
This is larger than programatic cuts (Ares, Constellation). What can/should be done to take advantage of the Obama “Plan” (opposed in Congress) to turn the KSC from the mausoleum of manned space flight into the doorway for humanity into space?
This fight if FOR the heavens. But it’s going to be fought IN the (political) trenches.
That’s the article I’d like to read.