Re: Dumping the Shuttle

"Charleston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>You corrected me with "some abandon"
>by failing to acknowledge the full context of the sentence with which you
>find fault;-)  

No, your statement was out and out incorrect, regardless of context.

> deliberately qualified the term redundant well enough for
>most people. 

No, you used the term in an incorrect fashion.

>The point being that a second set of life support, equipment support,
>communications, and control systems (the LMs) served the needs of the crew
>well enough to get them back to the immediate vicinity of the earth alive.

No argument there, but in any arguement the usage of standard
terminology helps communication, the reverse hinders. 

>You will not find "alternate path" in the standard English
>dictionary.

I won't find any of dozens of terms we toss about here daily in the
standard English dictionary.  But then, I don't use a standard English
dictionary as a reference for a specialized vocabulary.

D.
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