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.