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Dancinghomer
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 Posted: 07/03/06 - 10:46 Post subject: SPACE: Should we scrub the program?
"Shuttle foam crack puts launch in doubt"
Is the foam crack really that big a concern? Are we panicking?
Should we just spend years and millions...billions of dollars to repair Discovery and build a new fleet?
Or should we tell the ISS that we're sorry and just forget about space?
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jrjo
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Posted: 07/03/06 - 12:00 Post subject:
I think we should tell Senator Robert Byrd to give back the $399-million worth of pork projects that West Virginia got in 2005 alone, and bump it into the NASA budget.
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Gogirlgo
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Posted: 07/03/06 - 12:37 Post subject:
I saw something on TV last night about all the pork WV gets (but it wasn't about Byrd) and I wonder how it's any different than the massive subsidizing of farming we currently do.
The space program: I think it's better to worry about a crack than have a shuttle explode, but I'm wacky like that. The program has the potential to answer lots of questions for us but it's hard to measure the value of it before it occurs.
Plus, without the space program there would be no TANG. Need I say more?
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Pug
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Posted: 07/03/06 - 12:45 Post subject:
| Gogirlgo wrote: |
Plus, without the space program there would be no TANG. Need I say more? |
So, scrub the space program. Check.
The pork would have to be evaluated on a case by case basis for transfering to NASA's budget, but that's a whole nother discussion on pork in congressional bills.
Aaaaand I'm all for keeping the space program because I feel without any good factual information that it will lead to something valuable, provide the impetuous for scientific advancements (besides the vileness called Tang), and is a worthwhile enterprise for the nation as well as humanity.
But then I'm a dreamer.
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MechEngDropout
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Posted: 07/03/06 - 18:35 Post subject:
| Pug wrote: |
Aaaaand I'm all for keeping the space program because I feel without any good factual information that it will lead to something valuable, provide the impetuous for scientific advancements (besides the vileness called Tang), and is a worthwhile enterprise for the nation as well as humanity.
But then I'm a dreamer. |
I'm a dreamer too, but I think space exploration should be a corporate endeavor, with government subsidies. I don't think the benefit is worthwhile for the amount of money we spend.
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Floridaboiler
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Posted: 07/03/06 - 20:12 Post subject:
I think we need to keep the space program going. They have helped drive technology forward and I just wish some other companies would offer to help out more. Maybe they are and I don't hear about it.
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RangerG
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Posted: 07/05/06 - 10:45 Post subject:
| Gogirlgo wrote: | | I wonder how it's any different than the massive subsidizing of farming we currently do. |
I hope farm subsidizing increases. Unless we want to be dependant on other nations for our food... What happens if they get PO'd at us and cut off the supply as a political statement?
<General Comment - Not directed at GGG>
We have let way too much of our technology and manufacturing get out of this country under the CFR and it's adgenda. In my opinion, it's is criminal in intent and execution.
How long until the US is a second or third world nation dancing to someone elses tune?
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copteacher
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Posted: 07/05/06 - 14:06 Post subject:
I think NASA, once the charm of the government working has fulfilled its mission. Go private let companies get in the space business, it is all of their equipment anyway.
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