I stand corrected. From the "Captain's Blog"...7/28/05 8:27 PM <br /><br />Zen's post (as copied by RCH)...<br /><br /><font color="yellow">Richard, It has become apparent that there are those over at the Space.com message boards who believe you are instructing your "fans" to wage a spam campaign to "destroy" their cyber domain. To prove to these folks that openness is the hallmark of the Enterprise Mission, and your personal credo, I here re-post my responses to those allegations. I think it is important for any "new" friends here to hear the truth straight, before experiencing any of this stuff first hand:<br /><br />"Very.....CHALLENGING ideas, to be sure. Richard's Enterprise Mission chat board has hundreds of members, and the small handful of "us" who post here remains the same - only a handful. Richard has not assembled an army of "followers" to "invade" here, nor is he out to "oppose" you specifically. Richard seeks to oppose NASA/JPL disingeuousness. The fact that he references Space.com now is (in my opinion only) that<br /><br />A) He is aware of our (myself, Max, Gene, etc) history here since the Cassinni fly-by of Iapetus <br /><br />B) He is aware that Space.com represents the single largest and most well-known meeting place for amature and professional people interested in space sciences and NASA/JPL missions <br /><br />C) He has directly experienced certain writers of the Space.com online magazine, wittingly or unwittingly, participating in a systematic and unscientific series of journalistic assaults on his ideas, reputation, and motives. These have been, yes, POLITICALLY motivated journalistic attacks that seem totally "out of place" for "professionals" who could simply ignore him, but instead "show their hand" and their true political allegiances by having participated in said "science journalism" <br /><br />D) Richard is very aware of the "half-life" of the attention spans of media-saavy Americans. He knows what the Deep Impact team also seems to know: that cit</font> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <strong><font color="#3366ff">Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find and not to yeild.</font> - <font color="#3366ff"><em>Tennyson</em></font></strong> </div>