Can someone provide a link summarizing Robert Zubrin’s vision of a Mars Mission project?

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Thanks for the advice Sweetwind. Some use italics to separate source from comments, but this is not rendered in RSS, which is how I prefer to read my favorite news sites. Perhaps I will use [brackets]. What I post here is cut/paste from my own blog (see my user info page): I repost entries to other sites depending on the subject, so I have to think of compatibility with different styles. Any advice welcome, too bad there is no agreed standard.

Hmmm, I don’t know anything about RSS so I am stumped. I presume that the HTML tag <blockquote> won’t work. How about “quotation marks”? Hey, they MUST get through because you included some in the quoted text in your story, right? :-) Now the trick is, if there are already quotation marks in the text you are quoting, you convert them to ’single quotes’ so they don’t close out the material that YOU are quoting. At least I think that is the rule in ordinary English. I need help from an English teacher – gypsysoul are you out there??

So my proposal would yield something like:
From Space.com, an interesting article on the future of space exploration: “Space visionary Freeman Dyson, the acclaimed emeritus professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, recently had a conversation with Robert Zubrin, the world’s biggest cheerleader for human missions to Mars. ‘Your scheme of Mars missions is excellent,’ Dyson said …”

You are exactly right.

By checking out gp’s web site, http://www.prisco.info/giulio/, I understand that he’s used to playing by different rules, but more paragraphing and clarifying punctuation would certainly be helpful, along with more links for those who would like to get to the original source quickly.

I hesitate to offer even a comment after the early days when BOB got his Fruit of the Looms in a wad over someone’s “inserting typos” into his writing :-).  RJ graciously allows me to feel useful by fixing his Tennessean predisposition to  ”there’s many ways…” and wandering commas.

Your example, however, is perfect.  

It’s been quite a while since I learned those rules in school. I’m sure I’ve mangled and twisted a lot of them in the meantime, but luckily that one survived intact :-)

You really gave a clear explanation and good examples of how gp might improve the format of his interesting posts.

I should have done that myself, but I’m honestly somewhat gun-shy after those few early previous experiences.  Okay, so I’m a coward… that’s closer to the truth :-)