Posted on 12/17/2018 9:12:10 AM PST by BenLurkin
A “nuclear tunnelbot” — sounds like the end of the world is nigh.
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All deep space / long term probes requires a lump of nuclear material (plutonium) to provide an energy source. Voyager 1 and 2 used plutonium. As did Cassini, Curiosity, and New Horizons.
My Dad was the program manager at GE who led the development of the RTGs on the Voyager spacecraft!
They do realize that 2001: A Space Odyssey was fiction, don’t they?
And this, boys and girls, is why we are twenty trillion in the hole.
“Gosh, look at how “ridiculous” this million dollar thing is. Let’s get rid of it ... but ignore the trillion we spend every year on socialism.”
OK ... you win. ELIMINATE NASA ENTIRELY.
Wonderful.
You haven’t done a goddam thing to meaningfully reduce government spending.
But you sure do feel good about yourself, you steely-eyed budget hawk.
Don’t you?
50 year old SciFi movie!
Still holds up very very well!
Stealing from the productive and giving to the unproductive, while taking a cut off the top?
Please ...
Take another look at that pie chart. You do know how to read it.
Right?
Seriously: Eliminate NASA entirely. You won’t do a damn thing to reduce debt or deficit. You’ll sure get to feel good about yourself, though.
NASA’s cost is not even big enough to be called chicken feed!
Entitlements are the problem!
You could zero out the Federal budget and entitlements still drive us off a financial cliff!
But everybody can rationalize why they deserve an entitlement so it will never happen!
Thanks fieldmarshaldj. I can almost smell the A.C. Clarke jokes without reading the topic.
They do realize that 2001: A Space Odyssey was fiction, don’t they?
Nope. If they made a movie about something with ‘science’ in it, then if must be real (except comic book characters ... well maybe kinda could be real you never know.
Lets put a nuke on a
launch pad.....brilliant.
Or to the moon or anywhere. Let's finish the mars thing...send life in the form of moss and see if it 'takes'...
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