Comments on: Griffin/Obama follow up

By: Todd W.

Todd W. — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:36:11 +0000

@mk

Apologies for the tone. I did not mean for it to be snide.

By: mk

mk — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:24:22 +0000

I only made that comment as a reply to your snide and empty comment to me. Up to that point I felt there was at least a semi-civil conversation going on.

Oh well…

Til next time.

Cheers.

By: Todd W.

Todd W. — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:59:44 +0000

Not at all. There are definitely other motives involved, and I did not intend to say that science or profit are the only ones involved.

By: mk

mk — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:48:45 +0000

OK, so you think the Federal Government and the people at NASA are pure of motive. Gotcha.

By: Todd W.

Todd W. — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:29:11 +0000

@mk

OK, so it’s just that NASA should not spend any resources at all investigating such scientific frontiers and it should be the sole responsibility of private investors who will likely have a primarily economic interest in it. Gotcha.

By: mk

mk — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:06:49 +0000

I’m saying NASA has bigger, better, more important space-stuff to be spending money, time and energy on. If Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Richard Branson want to get some of their billionaire pals together and fund a Star Trek Enterprise or Mars/moon/Europa colony… more power to them.

By: Todd W.

Todd W. — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:47:27 +0000

@mk

So, your suggestion is to not spend any money at all on manned missions outside of our lovely little planet Earth?