I should be sorry I guess, that I took this as a serious thread. But I am not at all! I just went out to your link, and it isn’t even on SDC! People here are now supposed to go out to other sites? I don’t think so!<br /><br />(A) Why accuse me of posting that particular reply everywhere? I have not made that particular post anywhere else that I know of!<br /><br />(B) If you are going to post sarcasm or humor, then it should be labeled as such. Even over on free space they generally do this (usually at the end of the post, so as not to spoil the joke). But this forum is generally supposed to be relatively serious for those who are serious about the space program.<br /><br />If posters are going to be frivolous and silly, they should either go over to SETI or free space!<br /><br />Then I see the usual gang of NASA bashers have lined up here! <br /><br />When spacex can prove by actual successful launches that it has a rocket anywhere near as reliable as the Delta II for half the actual launch price, THEN perhaps Elon Musk and Company can start to crow about it! <br /><br />Actually it is not spacex or Elon Musk that I have a problem with, I do wish him and his company all the luck in the world! It is the overly enthusiastic and somewhat sarcastic bunch of (anti NASA types) of supporters he has generated right here. This kind of thing should be relegated to free space, they are experts over there on such sarcasm!<br /><br />If you want to go after large scale governmental waste of taxpayer dollars, there are plenty of far larger fish in the federal budget, that you can go after than NASA!<br /><br />And yes, in at least one respect I do repeat myself on this forum. And I will continue to repeat myself as long as the NASA bashers continue to repeat themselves!<br /><br />That is, in the long run NASA is NOT an EXPENSE of the federal government it IS an INVESTMENT in the future of not only the United States, but of all mankind! <br /><br />