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Space: The doomed frontier?
Random Chaos
Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
in Zocalo v2.0
First Hubble servicing missions
Then the TRMM weather Satellite ( [url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60421-2004Jul18.html[/url] )
[b]Now NASA budget:[/b] [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3912095.stm[/url]
Oh - and take a look at this cartoon while you are at it:
[url]http://www.ucomics.com/tomtoles/2004/07/20/[/url]
Let us hope they get back on the idea that "science is good" sometime in the next few years...
Then the TRMM weather Satellite ( [url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60421-2004Jul18.html[/url] )
[b]Now NASA budget:[/b] [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3912095.stm[/url]
Oh - and take a look at this cartoon while you are at it:
[url]http://www.ucomics.com/tomtoles/2004/07/20/[/url]
Let us hope they get back on the idea that "science is good" sometime in the next few years...
Comments
There are other Space agancys other then NASA.
Politicians won't spend the money or support something unless it proves beneficial to THEM.
I just wish someone would get up and say "ENOUGH!". Time for us to start working together again like we did in the 1940s. Honestly, the United States has the ability to achieve huge strides in technology, exploration, etc., but it seems the majority of politicians like the current situation fine.
I'm not putting down any of the current projects going on, but it's time we start devoting money, material, resources, etc. to help improve mankind on a wide basis.
Hell, computers and technology jumped light years when the moon landing initiative was announced. All it takes is money and time...that's all it takes.
Worf
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[i]Okay, here it is. I have to start by saying that if there was any other way, if there was even a slight chance of another alternative, I would give anything not to be here with you now. Anything. Bru, how long have we known each other? Sixteen years. That's how long. Sixteen years. You should have seen yourself then. You looked like you just walked out of a Wheaties box. And me, all sweaty palm and deadly serious. I told everybody about this dream I had of conquering the new frontier, and they all looked at me like I was nuts. You looked at me and said, "yes." I remember when you told me Kay was pregnant. We went out and got crocked. I remember when Charles was born. We went out and got crocked again. The two of us. Captain Terrific and the Mad Doctor, talking about reaching the stars, and the bartender telling us maybe we'd had enough. Sixteen years. And then Armstrong stepped out on the Moon, and we cried. We were so proud. Willis, you and Walker, you came in about then. Both bright and talented wise-asses, looked at me in my wash-and-wear shirt carrying on this hot love affair with my slide-rule, and even you were caught up in what we'd done. I remember when Glenn made his first orbit in Mercury, they put up television sets in Grand Central Station, and tens of thousands of people missed their trains to watch. You know, when Apollo 17 landed on the Moon, people were calling up the networks and bitching because reruns of I Love Lucy were cancelled. Reruns, for Christ's sake! I could understand if it was the new Lucy show. After all, what's a walk on the Moon? But reruns! Oh, geez! And then suddenly everybody started talking about how much everything cost. Was it really worth twenty billion to go to another planet? What about cancer? What about the slums? How much does it cost? How much does any dream cost, for Christ's sake? Since when is there an accountant for ideas?[/i]
[B]It seems like the whole world is folding in on itself wtf is going on. [/B][/QUOTE]Euclid's laws have been repealed.
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Biggles [/i]
[B]Personally, I blame the templars. [/B][/QUOTE]The Templar saved the Human race by creating their Dyson spheres. :alien:
[B]Killed each other in new and more efficient ways. [/B][/QUOTE]
And created system which subjects nations and people under current "Holy Trinity" ("free" market, capitalism and rule of money/big corporations) for making maximum profits.
Well, it was that way even at that time but today it's much more emphasized.
[url]http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/FreeTrade/Neoliberalism.asp[/url]
Recommended reading:
[url]http://cyberjournal.org/cj/rkm/WE/jun00Matrix.shtml[/url]
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35 damn years since the Moon Landing, and WTF have we done since?!?! :mad:
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we have sent out probes!!!!... and put a pile of Statiles in orbit and Learned about about out planet,
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35 damn years since the Moon Landing, and WTF have we done since?!?! :mad:
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Taken 2 steps backwards, realized that governments are not going to get us into space, let the technology mature, and started on the path of space exploration by private citizens and organizations.
I'm fearing I wont feel zero-g, but I'm more confident my grand children will.
[B]started on the path of space exploration by private citizens and organizations.
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Looks like space is going to be for the Rich and Rich funded:(.... Not for everone like it should:(....
[B]I'm fearing I wont feel zero-g, but I'm more confident my grand children will. [/B][/QUOTE]
The day SpaceShipOne reached space, I finally knew for sure that I will make it there myself, one way or another.