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Posted by ed kyle on June 16, 2005, 2:22 pm
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John Derbyshire couldn't come up with a better topic this
week.
"The Folly of Our Age: The Space Shuttle"
"Like the monster in some ghastly horror movie rising from
the dead for the umpteenth time, the space shuttle is back
on the launch pad. This grotesque, lethal white elephant -
14 deaths in 113 flights - is the grandest, grossest
technological folly of our age. ...."
"http://www.nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire200506160749.asp"
- Ed Kyle
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Posted by ed kyle on June 16, 2005, 2:32 pm
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ed kyle wrote:
John Derbyshire couldn't come up with a better topic this
week.
"The Folly of Our Age: The Space Shuttle"
"Like the monster in some ghastly horror movie rising from
the dead for the umpteenth time, the space shuttle is back
on the launch pad. This grotesque, lethal white elephant -
14 deaths in 113 flights - is the grandest, grossest
technological folly of our age. ...."
"http://www.nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire200506160749.asp"
He's a wordsmith, that John.
- Ed Kyle
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Posted by Jorge R. Frank on June 17, 2005, 9:17 am
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> ed kyle wrote:
> John Derbyshire couldn't come up with a better topic this
> week.
>
> "The Folly of Our Age: The Space Shuttle"
>
> "Like the monster in some ghastly horror movie rising from
> the dead for the umpteenth time, the space shuttle is back
> on the launch pad. This grotesque, lethal white elephant -
> 14 deaths in 113 flights - is the grandest, grossest
> technological folly of our age. ...."
>
> "http://www.nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire200506160749.asp"
>
> He's a wordsmith, that John.
He's apparently also read and mastered "How To Lie With Statistics."
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Posted by Rick Nelson on June 16, 2005, 8:43 pm
Please log in for more thread options It is a really dumb design - we could make blackbirds out of pure
titanium but couldn't spare any for our astronauts? What a load of BS -
let me think back... Wasn't it a mainly Repbulican congress that
defunded NASA in favor of the military after Apollo? Gee - go figure
how we're racing down the same hole now..
Brilliant! BUSH IS THE BIGGEST DUMBASS PRESIDENT EVER!! AND HE TAKES
ADVICE FROM DUMBASSES THAT DUMBASSES TOLD HIM TO APPOINT. I THINK CARL
ROVE WILL BE SPIT ON PRETTY SOON.
Rick
ed kyle wrote:
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> John Derbyshire couldn't come up with a better topic this
> week.
>
> "The Folly of Our Age: The Space Shuttle"
>
> "Like the monster in some ghastly horror movie rising from
> the dead for the umpteenth time, the space shuttle is back
> on the launch pad. This grotesque, lethal white elephant -
> 14 deaths in 113 flights - is the grandest, grossest
> technological folly of our age. ...."
>
> "http://www.nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire200506160749.asp"
>
> - Ed Kyle
>
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Posted by Rusty on June 17, 2005, 12:58 am
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Rick Nelson wrote:
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> It is a really dumb design - we could make blackbirds out of pure
> titanium but couldn't spare any for our astronauts? What a load of BS -
> let me think back... Wasn't it a mainly Repbulican congress that
> defunded NASA in favor of the military after Apollo? Gee - go figure
> how we're racing down the same hole now..
> Brilliant! BUSH IS THE BIGGEST DUMBASS PRESIDENT EVER!! AND HE TAKES
> ADVICE FROM DUMBASSES THAT DUMBASSES TOLD HIM TO APPOINT. I THINK CARL
> ROVE WILL BE SPIT ON PRETTY SOON.
> Rick
Let's review the facts about who controlled Congress after the Apollo
program:
1968 Democrats controlled the Senate and House.
1969 Democrats controlled the Senate and House.
1970 Democrats controlled the Senate and House.
1971 Democrats controlled the Senate and House.
1972 Democrats controlled the Senate and House.
1973 Democrats controlled the Senate and House.
1974 Democrats controlled the Senate and House.
1975 Democrats controlled the Senate and House.
1976 Democrats controlled the Senate and House.
1977 Democrats controlled the Senate and House.
1978 Democrats controlled the Senate and House.
1979 Democrats controlled the Senate and House.
1980 Democrats controlled the Senate and House.
1981 Democrats controlled the House, Republicans controlled the Senate.
1982 Democrats controlled the House, Republicans controlled the Senate.
1983 Democrats controlled the House, Republicans controlled the Senate.
1984 Democrats controlled the House, Republicans controlled the Senate.
1985 Democrats controlled the House, Republicans controlled the Senate.
1986 Democrats controlled the House, Republicans controlled the Senate.
1987 Democrats controlled the Senate and House.
1988 Democrats controlled the Senate and House.
1989 Democrats controlled the Senate and House.
1990 Democrats controlled the Senate and House.
1991 Democrats controlled the Senate and House.
1992 Democrats controlled the Senate and House.
1993 Democrats controlled the Senate and House.
1994 Democrats controlled the Senate and House.
1995 Republicans controlled the Senate and House.
1996 Republicans controlled the Senate and House.
1997 Republicans controlled the Senate and House.
1998 Republicans controlled the Senate and House.
1999 Republicans controlled the Senate and House.
2000 Republicans controlled the Senate and House.
2001 Republicans controlled the Senate and House.
2002 Republicans controlled the Senate and House.
2003 Republicans controlled the Senate and House.
2004 Republicans controlled the Senate and House.
2005 Republicans controlled the Senate and House.
Bzzzzzzzzzz Wrong. Thanks for playing.
Looks like Democrats had control of Congress through most of the first
20-years
of the Space Shuttle program.
Rusty
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> John Derbyshire couldn't come up with a better topic this
> week.
>
> "The Folly of Our Age: The Space Shuttle"
>
> "Like the monster in some ghastly horror movie rising from
> the dead for the umpteenth time, the space shuttle is back
> on the launch pad. This grotesque, lethal white elephant -
> 14 deaths in 113 flights - is the grandest, grossest
> technological folly of our age. ...."
>
> "http://www.nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire200506160749.asp"
>
> He's a wordsmith, that John.