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Y'know, hold on. Okay, no one on this site likes this guy, with the exception of one or two nutjobs.
But if the rumors are true, and Bush is planning on launching a renewed US push into space, this is a VERY GOOD THING. Okay, maybe he is planning on nuking the Martians in a first-strike attack, but y'know, all joking aside ...
... isn't an expanded space program something we've wanted for a long time?
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I don't know. I'd rather him forget that and concentrate on the economy, gun crime, and not blowing people up.
Well, I would if I were an Yankee-doodling.
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quote:Originally posted by Malnurtured Snay: Y'know, hold on. Okay, no one on this site likes this guy, with the exception of one or two nutjobs.
But if the rumors are true, and Bush is planning on launching a renewed US push into space, this is a VERY GOOD THING. Okay, maybe he is planning on nuking the Martians in a first-strike attack, but y'know, all joking aside ...
... isn't an expanded space program something we've wanted for a long time?
If there is a long term plan, like starting with returning to the moon, then going on to Mars, I'm up for it, but if all he says is lets go to the moon, we've been there and done that.
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Yeah. Bush has to present something that shows he's capable of thinking more than four years ahead, that he isn't just securing an escape route to a second term with a last-minute boost of his own waning popularity. Then, only then, a Good Thing will this be.
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I'd be happy if he just allocated all the money he's dumping into perfecting low-rad yield "mini-nukes" to NASA's spaceprobe projects. It's probably the only way we'll see a probe on Europa in our lifetimes and we are already more than capable of killing large numbers of people with our old 1980's nuclear technology. Some things really dont require refinment.
What's more imporntant? The ISS or a trip to Mars We chose the ISS partly because the other countries agreed to pay for part of the cost, but it's not working out that way...and what exactly is it there for? Anybody know what it can do that was'nt accomplished on Mir? So far I've seen dick of any useful experiments come from the ISS. Fuck Iraq: I want a new fully reusable ground-to -space vehicle and I want humans on mars and possibly the asteroid belt within the next fifty years. It's completley possible too.
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Nothing good can be done on the ISS due to the limited number of people who can live on it at any one time. They spend all their time maintaining the place, and don't have enough time to do anything else.
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Did the building of the ISS just stop? I thought it was still being worked on...
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Ironically small, low-rad nukes may be just what NASA needs if they decide to restart the Orion project. If I recall, one of the reasons the shelved it in the first place was because they couldn't get the explosives clean enough for an atmospheric launch. I think the figures were something like, 10 out of 100 deaths from cancer would be caused by each launch. Still, Orion is the only way to get people to the Jovian end of the system in a reasonable amount of time, for the moment anyway.
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I think we need a luna orbiting station. Something simple. And it could be rotating for gravity - not everything in space has to be low or null-grav!
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Orion was killed by the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, which banned nuclear explosions in space.
And W. has already proved this is nothing but a publicity grab. The House of Representatives almost killed the Pluto-Kuiyper Express, along with the rest of the New Horizons project, and it took a massive bombardment of mail, e-mail, and faxes to get them to restore the previously-alotted budget. Here's the statement the Planetary Society made to the House Appropriations Committee.
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