Logical fallacy. You are grouping people who have not formed a consensus of opinion and then damning them for it. Very poorly executed argument, and the mods who scored you "5" need to watch paint dry if they think that was interesting.
That's a recent, but not the most egregious case of near-sighted budget failures within NASA. All the science programs are being gutted, despite them having been the most successful and cost effective programs in the current space sector. Dawn stood out because it would have returned a mere $30 million to the coffers, the bulk of the $370 million budgeted for the mission having already been spent. Obviously you have to get your $30 millions here and there if you want to save a few billion to increase spending for the manned spaceflight program, however, it looked farcical to throw away $340 million already spent and a mission within months of launch in order to get that particular $30 million.
Dawn may have stood out in that regard as an obvious budgetary foul-up, but its indicative of a culture within NASA of administration that appears to be pandering to the short-term will of elected politicians rather than medium to long term human goals. There's necessity there of course, in that the survival of much of the public science in NASA is in the hands of the politicans, but we currently appear to be throwing the baby out with the bath water. When you cancel a science program, you not only lose the science that you fought to get funding for, but you send a message back to the bean counters that they spent however many billions of dollars on projects that never came to fruition. If you want to build central governmant distrust of science funding, this is a good way to do it.
As a discussion of MMOGs grows longer, the probability of somebody making a comparison to Shadowbane approaches certainty. Just as with UseNet threads that make comparisons to Nazis, its a fairly good indication that the MMOG discussion has outlived its usefulness.
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Logical fallacy. You are grouping people who have not formed a consensus of opinion and then damning them for it. Very poorly executed argument, and the mods who scored you "5" need to watch paint dry if they think that was interesting.
That's a recent, but not the most egregious case of near-sighted budget failures within NASA. All the science programs are being gutted, despite them having been the most successful and cost effective programs in the current space sector. Dawn stood out because it would have returned a mere $30 million to the coffers, the bulk of the $370 million budgeted for the mission having already been spent. Obviously you have to get your $30 millions here and there if you want to save a few billion to increase spending for the manned spaceflight program, however, it looked farcical to throw away $340 million already spent and a mission within months of launch in order to get that particular $30 million.
Dawn may have stood out in that regard as an obvious budgetary foul-up, but its indicative of a culture within NASA of administration that appears to be pandering to the short-term will of elected politicians rather than medium to long term human goals. There's necessity there of course, in that the survival of much of the public science in NASA is in the hands of the politicans, but we currently appear to be throwing the baby out with the bath water. When you cancel a science program, you not only lose the science that you fought to get funding for, but you send a message back to the bean counters that they spent however many billions of dollars on projects that never came to fruition. If you want to build central governmant distrust of science funding, this is a good way to do it.
As a discussion of MMOGs grows longer, the probability of somebody making a comparison to Shadowbane approaches certainty. Just as with UseNet threads that make comparisons to Nazis, its a fairly good indication that the MMOG discussion has outlived its usefulness.
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Nope. If Joe were to give him subscriber numbers, I'm sure that SB would add it to the list... as the smallest viable MMOG. :)