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On Aug 21, 2:10 pm, D Peter Maus wrote:
Ironic, that the very technology that permits you to publish
worldwide this diatribe about NASA....is a by-product of the space program.- Hide quoted text -

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Bull****. The internet would have, and did, evolve with or without the
existence of NASA. It's not surprising that their PR Dept. tries to
lay claim to makiing it all possible - a typical bureaucratic self
congratulatory agrandizement tactic while trying to justify its
existence. Raison d'être!



Take a step back. I'm not talking about the internet. But the
electronics that drives it. THAT is a by-product of the Space Program.

On Aug 21, 3:14 pm, D Peter Maus wrote:
wrote:
On Aug 21, 2:10 pm, D Peter Maus wrote:
Ironic, that the very technology that permits you to publish
worldwide this diatribe about NASA....is a by-product of the space program.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Bull****. The internet would have, and did, evolve with or without the
existence of NASA. It's not surprising that their PR Dept. tries to
lay claim to makiing it all possible - a typical bureaucratic self
congratulatory agrandizement tactic while trying to justify its
existence. Raison d'être!

Take a step back. I'm not talking about the internet. But the
electronics that drives it. THAT is a by-product of the Space Program.

Still bull****. The electronic technology that drives the internet
would have evolved with or without the existence of NASA - llkely
decades sooner had private enterprise and market forces been involved.
You employed by the NASA public relations juggernaut per chance?

wrote:

On Aug 21, 2:10 pm, D Peter Maus wrote:
Ironic, that the very technology that permits you to publish
worldwide this diatribe about NASA....is a by-product of the space
program.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Bull****. The internet would have, and did, evolve with or without the
existence of NASA. It's not surprising that their PR Dept. tries to
lay claim to makiing it all possible - a typical bureaucratic self
congratulatory agrandizement tactic while trying to justify its
existence. Raison d'être!
perhaps you need to read your history a bit more.
computer technology (such as that used on the internet) was directly
descended from research projects at AT&T and NASA.

If NASA had not existed, and we had NOT gone to the moon, we would still be
using older style modems and probably just getting to the TRS-80 Model 1
about now.

AMEN!!!! I used to work for them, and finally quit, nothing to do.
Every day the guy in charge would try to rack his brain to find
some project to do. Funny part, they all pretended they were
doing something useful and patriotic. What a waste.



On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:41:56 -0700, wrote:


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Due to come home this morning.I think the lady at NASA said 11:32 AM
Central Standard Time.
I will be watching the NASA channel, 376 on DirecTV.
cuhulin

How exciting! Are the astronauts sober? Did the love birds all get
along this trip? With Casanova astronauts, love triangles, diapers and
kidnappings and all it's a wonder they have time to be "heroes". I
guess since computers do all the important tasks that leaves the
"heroes" with plenty of free time.

What a colossal waste of taxpayers money. The make jobs operation
called NASA should have been defunded decades ago. If the egg head
PhD.'s want to play space cadets they should do it at their own
expense or by private enterprise. Instead, hard working average
Americans are forced to pay for it.

I guess you have to give credit to the NASA public relations machine
though. They've managed to perpetuate the con game for over 40 years
now in spite of the glaring incompetence of the agency.

Oooooo!!! Weeeee! More pictures of rocks and dust Mildred!!! WOW!!! I
AM SO PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!!!!!!!!

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Due to come home this morning.I think the lady at NASA said 11:32 AM
Central Standard Time.
I will be watching the NASA channel, 376 on DirecTV.
cuhulin


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