no one's saying you can't come out in favor of Project Orion, or anything else, for that matter. you're just being asked to be polite, which I don't see as any big deal.

besides, as has been established repeatedly, while you can say (almost) anything you want, Phil--or I guess now the moderator team; boy, I'm going to take a while getting used to that--doesn't have to provide you the bandwidth to do it.

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