Re:As usual, the private sector does it better. (Score 1)

In any event, this news item shows that once again, the private sector has done it smaller, faster, and cheaper than those bureaucratic zeebs at NASA.

Actually, this news item shows that the bureaucratic zeebs are the ones who did it:
"In the name of climate change science, researchers at NASA have dropped 90 rubber ducks into holes of Greenland's fastest moving glacier ..."
from TFA at: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/09/22/nasa.ducks/index.html