I really am going to try and find the original piece by Elaine in the library, but until then I have a hard time seeing the parallels. For Ender to be Hitler, he'd have to: - be part bugger - be a political leader, not a military one - be middle aged - have the bugger's be citizens of his own nation here on earth - murder a large number but leave the majority to scatter around the universe - hate buggers and use lies about them to keep his people in line - die alone after losing a series of military battles to someone other than the buggers
Listen to Elachi's speeches. This is not a permanent shift from robotics to manned exploration in the NASA mindset. This is a painful but hopefully temporary shift to get the CEV up faster so we don't have such a large down time between when the shuttle expires and the CEV comes on line. Robotics is still the acknowledged way to go, just not this year.
JPL funding for '06 is the same order of magnitude as '03, just much less than '04 and '05.
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I really am going to try and find the original piece by Elaine in the library, but until then I have a hard time seeing the parallels.
For Ender to be Hitler, he'd have to:
- be part bugger
- be a political leader, not a military one
- be middle aged
- have the bugger's be citizens of his own nation here on earth
- murder a large number but leave the majority to scatter around the universe
- hate buggers and use lies about them to keep his people in line
- die alone after losing a series of military battles to someone other than the buggers
I just don't see it.
Listen to Elachi's speeches.
This is not a permanent shift from robotics to manned exploration in the NASA mindset. This is a painful but hopefully temporary shift to get the CEV up faster so we don't have such a large down time between when the shuttle expires and the CEV comes on line. Robotics is still the acknowledged way to go, just not this year.
JPL funding for '06 is the same order of magnitude as '03, just much less than '04 and '05.