Comments on: New NASA Rocket May Not Be “Useful,” White House Panel Says

By: LL

LL — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:40:15 +0000

Courtesy is sometimes in short supply on the internet where one can be anonymous.

As YouRang notes the misuse of to/too is generally not found. So the other possibility is a missed typo. Readers can peruse a single article at their leisure while a writer has many to do in a limited time.

Best not to assume else…well, you know the saying.

By: Eliza Strickland

Eliza Strickland — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:20:12 +0000

Sigh. I know how to write. But in the frantic flurry of trying to get 5 interesting, important blog posts up a day, occasional typos slip through. I would appreciate your courtesy and understanding.

By: YouRang

YouRang — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:58:09 +0000

“… to (sic) slow…” Posts frequently circulate on the internet about how various seemingly gibberish passages are actually very readable. THE MISUSE of to/too is generally not one of them. “To slow” means the infinitive of the verb slow. “Too slow” is the comparative of the adjective slow. So “to slow” has a meaning which brought the reading of this article to a crashing halt. How can any professional writer write such gibberish?

By: Brian Too

Brian Too — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:30:55 +0000

Realistically, maybe Ares I-X is Plan B in case the commercial carriers don’t come through. A second plausible scenario is that the commercial carriers may be great, but they don’t have the single lift capacity and sometimes NASA simply needs volume or weight capability they can’t get commercially.

Also, it’s quite possible that Ares I-X builds up to Ares V, it’s a proving ground for the larger system (I’m aware they have different payload orientations).

By: badnicolez

badnicolez — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:33:50 +0000

Congress wastes nearly a trillion dollars on so-called “stimulus” and our country’s manned spaceflight program will be non-existent for years due to “budgetary constraints”!?

Ridiculous in the extreme!