[hopespringseternal]

Why is it that people who have no problem believing that me and my fellow Aerospace Engineers can build a Space Based Strategic Defense System to knock down incoming nuclear re-entry vehicles (which we most certainly CAN do), but believe that we are incapable of coming up with a transportation system that gets us off of oil?

Space Based Strategic Defense System? I believe it can be done, but bragging about it beforehand is a little out of place.

Neither would I find calling myself an aerospace engineer a point of pride given the lack of any meaningful space transportation infrastructure.

And if you think Hydrogen is the ticket off oil, no wonder our space industry is non-existant. Where do you think the hydrogen will come from?

Maybe the Easter bunny can fart it out.

[Regulator]

Woo hoo. Luddites everywhere. Let's see:

Space Based Strategic Defense System? I believe it can be done, but bragging about it beforehand is a little out of place

If you don't think that significant portions of it are already in place, or at least being tested (successfully, I might add), then you ain't paying attention.

Neither would I find calling myself an aerospace engineer a point of pride given the lack of any meaningful space transportation infrastructure

Don't blame me for NASA and Congress' problems. My satellites work just fine, as do the Launch Vehicles that loft them! By the way...what part of American Aerospace do you have something to do with, and can you point to another country with a significantly better one?

Where do I think the Hydrogen will come from? Lotsa places. Just gotta pick the right one.

[Dahoser]

Maybe the Easter bunny can fart it out.

If it's any help, this character farts helium...