What a dramatic accusation to shut down conversation. That's frankly uncalled for.
I'm expressing fears about a very expensive and time consuming investment.
A positive media spin for NASA means their budget remains unscrutinized and unfettered.
I never said NASA is telling the media to say these things. It may be a general sense of "talk highly about our expensive things so we can keep doing expensive things". How any department, public or private, keeps getting itself funded.
We're seeing a lot of these pieces. It feels as though scientists are telling journalists this byline, because it's everywhere. Nothing wrong with that.
> I'm wondering how well it's going to do as we pass through the Perseid cloud.
I don't think we know yet. We're about to find out.
It was just meant as an aside. Friendly generic advice to help save your sanity.
More advice: You're probably just hungry or in a bad mood. Whenever I overreact on HN or taken something the wrong way (which sadly has happened more than once) that's usually the issue. Go have something sweet to increase your blood sugar, maybe take a walk. It'll help. :-)
It isn’t uncalled for, what is uncalled for is how in the modern era you can’t talk about fucking anything without a conspiratorial interjection like yours, always without evidence, derailing fucking every conversation and every attempt to do something good. stop.
What a dramatic accusation to shut down conversation. That's frankly uncalled for.
I'm expressing fears about a very expensive and time consuming investment.
A positive media spin for NASA means their budget remains unscrutinized and unfettered.
I never said NASA is telling the media to say these things. It may be a general sense of "talk highly about our expensive things so we can keep doing expensive things". How any department, public or private, keeps getting itself funded.
We're seeing a lot of these pieces. It feels as though scientists are telling journalists this byline, because it's everywhere. Nothing wrong with that.
> I'm wondering how well it's going to do as we pass through the Perseid cloud.
I don't think we know yet. We're about to find out.