perlmonger: (planet)
perlmonger ([personal profile] perlmonger) wrote2005-07-17 09:47 pm

the final frontier

For those of you who don't read him, here are links to [livejournal.com profile] bradhicks's rather depressing, but very plausible, analysis of the US/NASA space programme post-Apollo.

Well worth a read if you're at all interested in the subject.

Parts one, two, three.

I wish I understood...

[identity profile] hunkymouse.livejournal.com 2005-07-20 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
well, Apollo and NASA, of course. But primarily, I don't "get" tags. To me, "Tags: history, politics, ref ref page p=ref page, space" is gobbledegook. I think I get the history and politics, and perhaps the space...

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Re: I wish I understood...

[identity profile] perlmonger.livejournal.com 2005-07-20 07:58 am (UTC)(link)
ref ref page p=ref page

That's just me being silly and pretentious; it's a little snippet of (pedantic) pseudo Algol68 that was intended to indicate that the posting is a reference to another posting elsewhere.

Sorry... :)

Re: I wish I understood...

[identity profile] sheepthief.livejournal.com 2005-07-28 08:13 am (UTC)(link)
Blimey, so there were people who actually used Algol!