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July 17th 03, 01:47 PM

(Len Over 21) wrote in message ...
In article , Radio Amateur KC2HMZ
writes:

An astronaut/ham's license is renewable for the life of the
astronaut/ham. So is any other ham's license. Once a ham becomes a
silent key, responsibility for licensing him or her passes to a higher
authority (who is a ham and has just bestowed the ultimate license
upgrade to the newly deceased - the privileges are unparallelled, but
the licensing requirements are rather steep - although no
demonstration of Morse proficiency is required, the written test is
reputed to be a real killer). However, the reference to shuttles
burning up on reentry was a poor choice of words.

As to your last sentence, John, you would be right only in discounting
certain individuals in here.

Nice try at wiggling your way out of the corner you backed
yourself into with that vile and demeaning slur about the Columbia
astronauts.

You only look more disgusting than what you are.

This thread got started by one who is obsessed with throwing any kind
of garbage at myself for the slightest reason...or as manufactured
garbage through the use of inference, misdirection, or outright
malicious quoting out of context.

"Out of context"...?!?!

No obsession was needed to take offense at your cold-hearted
slash at the Columbia crew.

As one who has been IN the aerospace industry and actually worked
ON spaceflight hardware (including man-rated), I'm in the category of
ardent fans of the overall effort and certain honor the men and women
who have been chosen as astronauts...and cosmonauts.

Obviously not, or you wouldn't have made such a scurrilous
comment.

A problem with the ordinary public is that they consider space flight
"safe," just like a long plane ride. It is most definitely NOT so. Every
single manned flight is a high-risk activity. That it has appeared safe
for many successful flights is due largely to thousands of non-astronauts
who did the engineering, design, fabrication of the vehicles and payloads.
The public is largely ignorant of them...at best only knowing the ones
around consoles at the MSFC Mission Control room.

So this makes it OK for Leonard H. Anderson to suggest that dying
on re-entry is OK...

Still, each and every space flight is not without risk today. The tragedy
of Columbia proved that very unfortunately. Back when Grissom, White,
and Chaffee lost their lives in a ground capsule test fire for Apollo, I was
working...(SNIP)

Yadayadayadayda. None of it believeable.

Before you get involved in castigating someone, consider carefully who
started this thread and the manner in which it was written. Like tens of
thousands of others, I honor ALL the names of men and women who
have gone in space...even those who have joined the space endeavor
knowing full well what their risks are.

You "honor" no one save yourself, Lennie. Never have...never
will. If John takes it upon himself to investigate what kind of
person you really are, he'll find out what we already know to be
true...that you are an untrustworthy, documented pathological liar
whose only reason for being here is the promulgation of hate, discord
and deceit.

Steve Robeson