Re: Houston, we have a problem.



On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 22:20:20 GMT, gcash <gcash@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I wish NASA would have the balls to say "well CONGRESS chose the drop tank
>version, we WARNED 'em" but a) they don't have 'em, and b) that doesn't work
>anyways.

How about saying "Congress chose the drop tank version, but they're a
bunch of idiots who should never have been allowed near that choice, so
they're going to get the version the engineers think they should have."


-SteveD
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