On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 11:36:22 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 11/16/20 10:25 AM, wrote:
On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 09:40:54 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

...assholish:

Guess which statement came from Biden and which came from Trump:

"Congratulations to NASA and SpaceX on today's launch. It's a testament
to the power of science and what we can accomplish by harnessing our
innovation, ingenuity, and determination. I join all Americans and the
people of Japan in wishing the astronauts Godspeed on their journey."

or:

"A great launch! @NASA was a closed up disaster when we took over. Now
it is again the "hottest," most advanced space center in the world, by far."

They are both full of ****.
NASA was saved by private industry.
The last decent man rated vehicle that came out of them was during the
Nixon administration. Carter's stupid Space Truck was the black hole
for throwing good money after bad into, that sunk them.
We are still stuck with the reality that 40% of every shuttle that
made it to low earth orbit, crashed with the loss of all hands and
they did not have a replacement. They made five, one blew up, one
burned up.
Compare that to the 737 MAX. There were 387 flying, 2 crashed
partially from pilot error and they condemned the whole fleet.


Ah, yes, I fondly remember all the fabulous contributions of
libertarians to the commonweal. Why, there was...and let's not forget...

I was talking about the nimbleness of private enterprise vs the
lumbering incompetence of government.
I can see why you wanted to go off on a tangent tho.
You prefer not to talk about that disparity.
Who came up with the vaccines? It wasn't NIH, it was Pfizer,
AstraZeneca and J&J.
According to your people the government (Trump) was no help at all.
The government can't even come up with a standard of what a "mask" is.