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Open space mission total waste of money
Aberdeen American News ^
| Jan. 25, 2004
| Donna Marmorstein
Posted on 01/25/2004 9:12:37 PM PST by jwalburg
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posted on
01/25/2004 9:12:39 PM PST
by
jwalburg
To: jwalburg
Good post. There is a lot of the same old argument in Dubya's space initiative.
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posted on
01/25/2004 9:14:59 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
To: RightWhale
And I understand that much of the funding goes into the pockets of the president's close buddies.Would that be Clinton and Terry "Global Croissing" McAuliffe?
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posted on
01/25/2004 9:18:39 PM PST
by
zarf
(..where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia work base that has an attachment?)
To: RightWhale
Well, I do have news for you. The United States is roughly seven trillion clams in the hole at this time with no end in sight. You can't just keep printing it and pretend that accumulated debt is meaningless. All sane projects are subject to a cost-benefit analysis of some sort. Even public works projects without a future revenue stream are weighted on relative capitalized costs. An open ended mandate to "figure out what's out there" doesn't sound very fiscally responsible or well thought out any way you slice it. Comparison with the Louisiana Purchase is simplistic thinking at its zenith. The LP was known in extent, and it's value tangible and quantifiable. What ever happened to the word "boondoggle"? It doesn't ever seem to be used anymore.
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posted on
01/25/2004 9:25:29 PM PST
by
SpaceBar
To: jwalburg; ambrose; edwin hubble; RadioAstronomer
Great post!
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posted on
01/25/2004 9:26:12 PM PST
by
Aracelis
To: RightWhale
Good post. There is a lot of the same old argument in Dubya's space initiative.If government knew what to do with resources the Soviet Union wouldn't have failed.
To: jwalburg
Until there in a breakthrough in basic physics and engineering resulting in a new propulsion system, talk about further space travel is a fraud. To travel any distance, it would take days, months, and years for radio communications to travel between any space vehicle and earth.
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posted on
01/25/2004 9:27:55 PM PST
by
RLK
To: SpaceBar
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posted on
01/25/2004 9:31:41 PM PST
by
JoJo Gunn
(Help control the Leftist population - have them spayed or neutered. ©)
To: SpaceBar
Comparison with the Louisiana Purchase is simplistic thinking at its zenith. The LP was known in extent, and it's value tangible and quantifiable.Actually, the Louisiana Purchase was made in 1803 - Lewis and Clark began exploration of the region in 1804, thus your claim that "The LP was known in extent, and it's value tangible and quantifiable" is unjustified.
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posted on
01/25/2004 9:31:48 PM PST
by
Aracelis
To: RightWhale
Hmmm? I see no one is calculating ALL THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF JOBS which will be created by this "space" mission.
And the hundreds of thousands of new products which will be developed because of this "space" mission. There were lots of threads on FR recently listing all the new developments since we have been in the space program.
Liberals are so short-sighted.
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posted on
01/25/2004 9:33:17 PM PST
by
CyberAnt
("America is the GREATEST NATION on the face of the earth")
To: RLK
Until there in a breakthrough in basic physics and engineering resulting in a new propulsion system, talk about further space travel is a fraud. To travel any distance, it would take days, months, and years for radio communications to travel between any space vehicle and earth.Communication between NASA and the rovers only requires 10 minutes...where'd you come up with the "days, months, and years" ????
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posted on
01/25/2004 9:34:30 PM PST
by
Aracelis
To: JoJo Gunn
Your moniker has a certain irony....
Next time I'll choose a simpler freepnick so you can concentrate on the subject matter without distraction.
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posted on
01/25/2004 9:34:42 PM PST
by
SpaceBar
To: SpaceBar
Do you think the money is going to be spent in space?
Absolutely NOT!!!
The money spent to go into space will be spent right here on EARTH, buying the good things.
This spending will translate into jobs, manufacturing, and prosperity.
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posted on
01/25/2004 9:35:50 PM PST
by
Lokibob
To: jwalburg
Good post. VERY good points. At first I thought it was about Kennedy's plans to send men to the moon until I saw the price tag.
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posted on
01/25/2004 9:35:52 PM PST
by
cake_crumb
(UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
To: Piltdown_Woman
Actually, the Louisiana Purchase was made in 1803 - Lewis and Clark began exploration of the region in 1804, thus your claim that "The LP was known in extent, and it's value tangible and quantifiable" is unjustified.
The Spanish colonized the southwest hundreds of years before there was a United States and the general extent of the landmass was quite well known, maybe just not investigated in great detail. The first whites in New Mexico arrived in the mid 1500's. My claim is well founded. Saying otherwise doesn't magically make it so.
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posted on
01/25/2004 9:38:22 PM PST
by
SpaceBar
To: SpaceBar
We'll never get there without the government's backing. China wants to go to the moon. We can't let them decide they own it. In addition, this will create new jobs and new prodicts which will be enjoyed by the private sector. Such undertakings always spawn jobs and new inventions.
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posted on
01/25/2004 9:39:13 PM PST
by
cake_crumb
(UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
To: CyberAnt
There were lots of threads on FR recently listing all the new developments since we have been in the space program. Here's one such modest thread: The Best of NASA Spinoffs
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posted on
01/25/2004 9:40:18 PM PST
by
Aracelis
To: SpaceBar
Hey guy, did you just get "white Flamed"?
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posted on
01/25/2004 9:40:36 PM PST
by
NYTexan
(A 60+ true republican Senate is the only way to decimate by attrition the liberal judiciary!)
To: SpaceBar
Spain was in the hole then too, and trans Atlantic travel was expensive. The only thing they quantified were their dreams of cities built of gold.
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posted on
01/25/2004 9:40:47 PM PST
by
cake_crumb
(UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
To: SpaceBar
The Spanish colonized the southwest hundreds of years before there was a United States and the general extent of the landmass was quite well known, maybe just not investigated in great detail. The first whites in New Mexico arrived in the mid 1500's. My claim is well founded. Saying otherwise doesn't magically make it so.Your claim is not well founded. No one knew the extent of the natural resources available - thus it was a gamble...just like "Fulton's Folly".
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posted on
01/25/2004 9:43:05 PM PST
by
Aracelis
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