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President must decide whether sending humans beyond earth’s orbit is worth the expense.
San Diego Union Tribune ^ | 11/15/09 | CHARLES F. KENNEL

Posted on 11/15/2009 6:56:21 AM PST by KevinDavis

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To: Vendome
Not insulted or mad, be at ease...

France has a small space program I think - but once NASA becomes NA_A, it will grow in the vacuum.

21 posted on 11/15/2009 8:32:17 AM PST by PIF
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To: PIF

I still don’t know what France is. /s/s/s/s


22 posted on 11/15/2009 8:41:43 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: KevinDavis

“Grow or die”. Right now we’re committed to dying...


23 posted on 11/15/2009 9:00:12 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: KevinDavis

POTUS has no decision-making skills!


24 posted on 11/15/2009 9:01:58 AM PST by lonestar (Obama and his czars have turned Bush's "mess" into a national crisis!)
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To: KevinDavis

I don’t want another country (particularly one who is as big a threat as China) at the top of a gravity well over us. Guess I took the lessons of “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” to heart.


25 posted on 11/15/2009 9:11:49 AM PST by exhaustguy
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It’s the WATER..!!!


26 posted on 11/15/2009 9:43:08 AM PST by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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To: KevinDavis

All my life and as a very serious sci-fi fan I have yet to see any references of an Islamic society in the future, I think the day mankind starts to seriously reach out for the stars Islam will stay behind and become a stagnant polluted cult of retroactive self destructive coalition that will restrict its followers from advancing to the future.

If by a remote chance we made first contact I swear Islam will go on a jihad against any new species, a total global Jihad as they cannot comprehend another species unlike their own kind, they cannot accept it, they must assimilate.

Islam is our Borg so to speak.


27 posted on 11/15/2009 9:56:40 AM PST by Eye of Unk ("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
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Earth’s Moon =
NASA blows 24 Gallons of WATER Ice out of a 60 foot wide Lunar crater


28 posted on 11/15/2009 10:11:14 AM PST by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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To: Eye of Unk; All

Well if you watch Chronicles of Riddick there is some mention that Islam is still around in the future..


29 posted on 11/15/2009 10:15:09 AM PST by KevinDavis (Can't Stop the Signal!)
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To: KevinDavis

I was going to mention that in my post, it was the second movie, yes they did have an Islamic style of culture, but they were not very technologically advanced.


30 posted on 11/15/2009 10:25:59 AM PST by Eye of Unk ("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
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Earth’s Moon WATER/Planet Mars WATER = Humankind’s Future
. A Gift from Heaven and the Heavens


31 posted on 11/15/2009 10:30:19 AM PST by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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To: Vendome

Don’t count out the French. Without the inconvenience of a spine they will no doubt be able to fit any number of astro(franco?)nauts into a capsule. This advantage will prove most useful in the ever important arena of space saving.


32 posted on 11/15/2009 12:15:32 PM PST by TheVitaminPress
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To: TheVitaminPress

So long as they don’t fart, I guess maybe it’d be okay.


33 posted on 11/15/2009 12:18:34 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: Vendome

Well, so long as they don’t fart in your general direction.


34 posted on 11/15/2009 12:20:57 PM PST by TheVitaminPress
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To: TheVitaminPress

They will be in deep space(oops, did I just type that) so it won’t matter.

LOL


35 posted on 11/15/2009 12:22:30 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: djf

It would be worth it is all liberals were being sent, and hopefully there would be no return plan....


36 posted on 11/15/2009 12:31:05 PM PST by goat granny
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To: KevinDavis
Be careful what you ask for. I have a feeling I know what this putz will decide if forced to choose between porkulus, nationalizing health care, cap and tax or any other big dumb idea and space exploration.
37 posted on 11/15/2009 2:59:35 PM PST by colorado tanker (What's it all about, Barrrrry? Is it just for the power, you live?)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...

Gosh, if only we could figure out a way to put NASA and Obama on the same page. Maybe NASA could create a community organizer office, or start generating press releases condemning Israel and calling for the abandonment of missile defense system deployments in Europe.

Hansen et al at work here:

Space travel to save the environment makes sense in this time of climate change
San Diego Union Tribune | 11/14/09 | Kim Stanley Robinson
Posted on 11/15/2009 7:29:13 AM PST by KevinDavis
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Thanks KevinDavis for both pings.


38 posted on 11/15/2009 3:00:29 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Vendome

LOL, true enough!


39 posted on 11/15/2009 3:20:22 PM PST by TheVitaminPress (as goes the Second Amendment . . . so goes the Constitution.)
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