[FPSPACE] Looking for a vision

[Jens Kieffer-Olsen]

-----Original Message-----
From: E.P. Grondine [mailto:epgrondine at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 2:51 AM

 Hi Ed,

 As you know Dave has asked of us that we pursue this
 interesting subject through back-channel exchanges,
 so I'll bow out from this thread with an ultra-brief
 rounding-off.  

 [snip]

> 6063 ENR (enacted by the House and Senate, copied
> and pasted):

 Yes, that's the one I got from
 http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.6063:_ 

 In fact, the text you quote and mine seems identical
 to the comma!

> EP: If we can find these things early enough there
> are non nuclear options for many of them, options
> which NASA could handle entirely on its own. But
> there are three essential things for them: early
> detection, early detection, and early detection. 

 Yes exactly, and that's why the need to 'obtain
 commitments for cooperation from other nations'
 for the search sounds like John Kerry-speak at
 its most naïve - ie. the sort of language bound
 to lead to narrowly lost battles!

--
Jens Kieffer-Olsen
Slagelse, Denmark