Right, because anyone listening to compressed digital music gives a crap about sound quality in the first place.
I can fire up my big fancy stereo (spinning a vinyl LP when I've got the option) if I want to chase perfection. If I just want to hear the damn song when I'm out and about, the iPod is way more than perfect.
While 2018 is fairly far off, even frustratingly so, we still have to be realistic. You can't design a set of new launch systems and associated spacecraft overnight.
Yes, they plan to re-use the SSMEs and SRBs, as well as significant elements of other components of the STS system, but don't think it doesn't entail a substantial degree of re-tooling and testing and training.
I think it's unfair that everyone so glibly points out that "before 2020" can be significantly after the current administration, cynically implying that the Vision is mere grandstanding and not something more substantive. (I'm making an assumption that this is the genesis of your first sentence, but if it's not, just call me paranoid.) More has been done for NASA and the space program than simply marking some nebulous area on a calendar and saying "Moon landing."
I'm very enthusiastic about the CEV program, and NASA's plans for it, and I think any other space exploration enthusiasts should be as well. Perhaps not unreservedly, but I'm certainly taking the benefit-of-the-doubt route.
Robots are all well and good, but contrary to the popular conceit, you can't explore with telescopes and probes. To do anything truly worth the effort, you need to send people there, and there'll never be a shortage of willing souls, so why not go for it?
NASA is on the right track and they're doing good things at a (so far) reasonable pace. And that makes me glad.
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Right, because anyone listening to compressed digital music gives a crap about sound quality in the first place.
I can fire up my big fancy stereo (spinning a vinyl LP when I've got the option) if I want to chase perfection. If I just want to hear the damn song when I'm out and about, the iPod is way more than perfect.
I had taken "dupe" to mean something along the lines of trick or con, rather than duplicate article.
"...window like structures on the screen on a desktop as we know it ( invented by mac people )..."
Really? 'Cause that's not the version I heard. Not at all.
So buy some shares.
While 2018 is fairly far off, even frustratingly so, we still have to be realistic. You can't design a set of new launch systems and associated spacecraft overnight.
Yes, they plan to re-use the SSMEs and SRBs, as well as significant elements of other components of the STS system, but don't think it doesn't entail a substantial degree of re-tooling and testing and training.
I think it's unfair that everyone so glibly points out that "before 2020" can be significantly after the current administration, cynically implying that the Vision is mere grandstanding and not something more substantive. (I'm making an assumption that this is the genesis of your first sentence, but if it's not, just call me paranoid.) More has been done for NASA and the space program than simply marking some nebulous area on a calendar and saying "Moon landing."
I'm very enthusiastic about the CEV program, and NASA's plans for it, and I think any other space exploration enthusiasts should be as well. Perhaps not unreservedly, but I'm certainly taking the benefit-of-the-doubt route.
Robots are all well and good, but contrary to the popular conceit, you can't explore with telescopes and probes. To do anything truly worth the effort, you need to send people there, and there'll never be a shortage of willing souls, so why not go for it?
NASA is on the right track and they're doing good things at a (so far) reasonable pace. And that makes me glad.
Yes, absolutely. The "people" must be protected from the evil machinations of "corporations."
Tell me though, do you say anything else when someone pulls your string, or is that your only phrase?