3. The public has very little stomach for "yet another NASA accident"
NASA has managed expectations the way airlines do. They take the line that they will do everything that can be done to safeguard the lives of the astronauts, including not sending them up. What is needed is an agressive posture that accepts the inherent high-risk nature of orbital operations and focuses on getting missions done. It's pathetic to spend billions on training and equipping risk-takers as astronauts only to ground them when the risk rises to some arbitrary level labeled "unacceptable".
This is exactly how you reply to people. There is no persuasion, no reasoning available. You are dealing with someone incapable of independent thought, who takes orders from authority figures, particularly religious ones. The satisfaction of counterattack is all you have.
Deleting data is unacceptable. The mission is to expose such information that would shed light on the death. Expose that which is relevant and leave the rest alone.
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Same old same old. "They didn't offer what I wanted the way I wanted it so I stole it."
3. The public has very little stomach for "yet another NASA accident" NASA has managed expectations the way airlines do. They take the line that they will do everything that can be done to safeguard the lives of the astronauts, including not sending them up. What is needed is an agressive posture that accepts the inherent high-risk nature of orbital operations and focuses on getting missions done. It's pathetic to spend billions on training and equipping risk-takers as astronauts only to ground them when the risk rises to some arbitrary level labeled "unacceptable".
Beat them up.
This is exactly how you reply to people. There is no persuasion, no reasoning available. You are dealing with someone incapable of independent thought, who takes orders from authority figures, particularly religious ones. The satisfaction of counterattack is all you have.
This is a recurring theme among certain slashdotters. "If I don't like how something is sold then I have the right to steal it."
Anyone notice the irony of illustrating a serious linguistic point with an SF example? Probably not.
Deleting data is unacceptable. The mission is to expose such information that would shed light on the death. Expose that which is relevant and leave the rest alone.