Environmental Space Nutsos?

Bruce Gagnon continues to refer to project Prometheus as a nuclear rocket when it isn't.

But T.L. James finds this comment to that post disturbing:

Thomas H. (Wisconsin, the State of Ethanol Refineries' Wasteland and Corporate Welfare Snake Oil) said...

You can already tell where this guy is coming from.

Thanks to you, Bruce, for forwarding the 5/20/05 article from the Baltimore Sun ("Space Junkyard").........

Important....... and very overlooked dangers...... you can't get boy or girlscout troops to go on roadside cleanup trips out yonder.... that is one pristine environment that can't be restored.....

Space a pristine environment? I'd like him to step out of a spaceship wearing nothing but his birthday suit and well see how pristine and natural the environment of space is to him then. An environment that is filled with naked radiation, huge variations of temperature, micrometeorites - and that's an environment that some space junk is going to destroy?

We throw up and blow up our *^*#$% out there...... and forever after it will KEEP HITTING THE FAN...... it can only get worse. Onward we go., digging ourselves ever deeper into the quicksand of greed and power-lust......... we are enshrouding ourselves in a net of deadly shards, insuring our status as a "Devil's Island" in our sector of the galaxy...... unapproachable, surrounded by a vast barbed, shrapnel fence of disastrous proportions, and, of our own making.......

Because we all know that we've been having pesky space debris problem lately that's so bad we can't even see the stars... Wait a minute that's greenhouse gases... Sorry I can't keep up with the environmentalist propaganda anymore.

No safe rapture for Bush and the revelation folks. Sorry. Soon, if we don't stop this space race to self-extinction, no one will be able to enter or exit the space envelope around planet Earth without colliding with orbiting space trash. Just booby traps for the whole human race...including the boobs that planted "space-mines" en route to delusional, mythic star wars.

One Giant leap......... we come in PIECES for all mankind.

Well thanks Thomas H. for once again explaining to me why we haven't managed to go anywhere in space exploration since the Apollo days. People like you that believe that a space race is "a race to extinction" and that it is somehow linked to greed drive the excessive government regulations that have strangled the aerospace industry. You could focus on environmental problems on Earth. Maybe this planet isn't big enough for you anymore.

Here's an idea: Let humans have an actual real presence in space before you throw the hammer down on them for destroying an environment that is already a radiated vacuum of dust and rocks...

You should be proud Thomas. You take the whole meaning of "Environmental Nutso" to a whole new level. Somehow I don't think I'm as much of Space nutso as you are an Environmental Nutso.