prole Posted February 1, 2010 Posted February 1, 2010 Well, that was a nice idea. Another project drawing from humanity's greater aspirations and better impulses down the toilet. But hey, it sounds like Brad and Jen might be getting back together! Quote
KaskadskyjKozak Posted February 1, 2010 Posted February 1, 2010 MOONBATS MUST REMAIN ON EARTH!!! THE HORROR! Quote
dberdinka Posted February 1, 2010 Posted February 1, 2010 No point in fucking up a bunch of other planets. Quote
tvashtarkatena Posted February 1, 2010 Posted February 1, 2010 Phoenix will have to absorb these extremonauts. Quote
ivan Posted February 1, 2010 Posted February 1, 2010 i'd rather see 50% of our budget going to space exploration than blowing up nations of brown people, but i guess politics is all about priorities sure seems like towel-heads would have a harder time blowing up our shit if it was all on the moon though Quote
tvashtarkatena Posted February 1, 2010 Posted February 1, 2010 Perhaps we should send the towel heads to the moon. I'm all for space exploration, but the moon mission was a corporate welfare pork barrel boondoggle pipe dream that would have eaten the funding for most of the remainder of NASA's truly awesome robotic missions, much to the detriment of doing actual science. We'll actually launch more high value exploratory missions because of this decision. Quote
ivan Posted February 1, 2010 Posted February 1, 2010 sure, the robot shit has been more rad - i'm looking forward to seeing some shit from under europa's oceans, even if a few more evil-doers get to keep walking the shit-heel streets they live on while looking for another camel to shag Quote
Choada_Boy Posted February 1, 2010 Posted February 1, 2010 Yeah, if only Columbus had sent a robot in his place, we'd probably still have brown people. I guess we'll just have to stick around here until the Sun becomes a Red Giant, then go extinct. Fitting. Quote
ivan Posted February 1, 2010 Posted February 1, 2010 I guess we'll just have to stick around here until the Sun becomes a Red Giant, then go extinct. Fitting. i'm seriously bummed i'm going to miss it Quote
Hugh Conway Posted February 2, 2010 Posted February 2, 2010 That looks like a Chinese science museum Quote
billcoe Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 Well, that was a nice idea. Another project drawing from humanity's greater aspirations and better impulses Bullshit. They should have abandoned the old 50s and 60's ideas back in the 70s instead of continued funding so we can land another person on the moon. It was a waste of money and stupid on many levels. This crap happens when you get politics involved. We had to race the Russians so we shortcutted the technology and then stayed the course. Stupid, stupid stupid. About time they took a turn for the better. I disagree with you. They should have done this 30 years ago. Quote
ivan Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 its nice to see bill n' tvash agree on somethign Quote
prole Posted February 3, 2010 Author Posted February 3, 2010 MOONBATS MUST REMAIN ON EARTH!!! THE HORROR! EXACTLY! Quote
tvashtarkatena Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 (edited) its nice to see bill n' tvash agree on somethign Well, to an extent. I'm not sure what Bill's on about 'shortcutting the technology' for the Apollo program (presumably). Wasn't the Apollo program well funded and wildly successful in attaining its objectives? Neither the Apollo 1 fire nor Apollo 13 accidents probably would have been averted with more funding or more sophisticated technology. On might argue that had the technology been more complex, there would have been even more accidents. Two words: space shuttle. Furthermore, later technology certainly hasn't fared any better: half of all Mars missions, for example, have failed. Besides, I'm all for having a little balls and actually getting the job done with the tin can you've got; something the Apollo astronauts did admirably. I don't think there would have been many, if any, more robotic exploratory missions had Apollo's funding been cut back earlier. As it was, Viking and Voyager followed closely on that program's heels; ushering in a new era of smaller probes made possible by a new generation of hardened integrated circuit based technologies that simply wasn't available before. After that, a new generation of 'better, faster, cheaper' missions like Pathfinder and Galileo were created precisely because funding was scarce. Finally, the space shuttle and ISS, two of the biggest peace time (actually, no...half of all shuttle missions are military) national pride wank fests, swooped in to suck up the money after Apollo. Apollo was beyond amazing. One might argue that we went 1, 2, or 3 too many times (the program WAS killed by politics, BTW, so the system worked) but that program inspired and will continue to inspire an entire world for some time. I mean, we put a fucking CAR on another planet, for Christ's sake. The sad part is that we did not follow up with a series of robotic exploratory missions to fully survey our closest neighbor (until much later, anyway). Edited February 3, 2010 by tvashtarkatena Quote
G-spotter Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 Meanwhile Glorious Leader Ahmadinejad sends patriotic Persian, rats, turtles and worms to space. Some race http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8497139.stm Quote
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