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[email protected] (Brian Yamauchi) writes: |
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>Any comments on the absorbtion of the Office of Exploration into the |
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>Office of Space Sciences and the reassignment of Griffin to the "Chief |
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>Engineer" position? Is this just a meaningless administrative |
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>shuffle, or does this bode ill for SEI? |
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>In my opinion, this seems like a Bad Thing, at least on the surface. |
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>Griffin seemed to be someone who was actually interested in getting |
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>things done, and who was willing to look an innovative approaches to |
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>getting things done faster, better, and cheaper. It's unclear to me |
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>whether he will be able to do this at his new position. |
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>Does anyone know what his new duties will be? |
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First I've heard of it. Offhand: |
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Griffin is no longer an "office" head, so that's bad. |
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On the other hand: |
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Regress seemed to think: we can't fund anything by Griffin, because |
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that would mean (and we have the lies by the old hardliners about the |
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$ 400 billion mars mission to prove it) that we would be buying into a |
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mission to Mars that would cost 400 billion. Therefore there will be |
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no Artemis or 20 million dollar lunar orbiter et cetera... |
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They were killing Griffin's main program simply because some sycophants |
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somewhere had Congress beleivin that to do so would simply be to buy into |
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the same old stuff. Sorta like not giving aid to Yeltsin because he's |
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a communist hardliner. |
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At least now the sort of reforms Griffin was trying to bring forward |
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won't be trapped in their own little easily contained and defunded |
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ghetto. That Griffin is staying in some capacity is very very very |
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good. And if he brings something up, noone can say "why don't you go |
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back to the OSE where you belong" (and where he couldn't even get money |
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for design studies). |
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Phil Fraering |"Seems like every day we find out all sorts of stuff. |
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[email protected]|Like how the ancient Mayans had televison." Repo Man |
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