Comments on: Fantasy vs. science fiction

By: Deanna Hoak

Deanna Hoak — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:59:13 +0000

Mentalwasteland: That would be nice; I just don’t see it ever happening.

By: Mentalwasteland

Mentalwasteland — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 02:57:44 +0000

What I’d like is to have the budget to do both robotic and manned missions as they are needed. Sometimes, the political aspects of this work are annoying.

By: Deanna Hoak

Deanna Hoak — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:52:52 +0000

Rosie: I’m learning about code the hard way with this blog, too (and have broken down and hired out some of the stuff I gave up on), so I don’t have any hard feelings. :-)

Mentalwasteland: :-) It’s cute, but true, too. With the way things are right now, I don’t think NASA is ever going to get the budget to do manned spaceflight properly, and it’s part of the reason I am more supportive of doing it robotically–we can do more for less money, and if we did find something really cool that way, the budget might change.

By: Mentalwasteland

Mentalwasteland — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 03:52:07 +0000

I am amused by imagining you carefully crafting that sentence full of links to have the right number of words.

Of course, I have my own personal definition of science fiction and fantasy. Science fiction is what we are trying to make work every day at NASA. Fantasy is what we’d do with a real budget.

By: Rosie

Rosie — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 01:59:47 +0000

Much as I love ‘im this is why Jose doesn’t have admin access to the new blog… He ain’t getting his grubby little paws on any of my lovely code.

By: Jose

Jose — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:06:22 +0000

My bad, I didn’t understand how it would look with all that html coding (I thought it would appear as a solid paragraph of url’s). However now that I realize what you did I put it back in.

Cheers,

Jose