Space Shuttle Endeavour Launch Live Thread ( 02/08/10 4:15 am EST)

02/07/10 | Kevin Davis

[KevinDavis]

This is the live thread of the Space Shuttle Endeavour..

[KevinDavis]

Dear Lord, please don't let me frak up -- Alan Sheppard

[KevinDavis]

For other space news go to: http://www.spacetoday.net
For a list of Private Space Companies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_private_spaceflight_companies

[cripplecreek]

Godspeed guys.

Any chance you can dump the sewage on the roof of the white house?

[the invisib1e hand]

Q. What did you think about during takeoff?

A. That this thing was made by the lowest bidder.

Space Truckin'!

[GeronL]

I find this sad. I can’t believe we are basically surrendering manned space travel.

[KevinDavis]

and letting other nations go ahead..

[racing fan]

Very sad about what Zero is doing.

May God watch over our Astronauts. May you have a safe journey.

[KevinDavis]

Elections has consequences..

[cripplecreek]

One more reason American kids need not bother studying science.

Oh well, there’s always social work.

[onedoug]

Can’t do it tonight...gotta work en la mañana....

[shadeaud]

Forget science, we have science fiction and the Chinese have science

[Sparky1776]

“I find this sad. I can’t believe we are basically surrendering manned space travel.”

First Brown clobbered the Dems over the lack of Kennedy style tax cuts, now the Dems kill the Space Program.

& they want to kill MediCare too.

Funny Stuff!

[KevinDavis]

I’m a big scifi fan, however, I think that SciFi somewhat killed the space program here in America..

[cripplecreek]

Used to be that science fiction was seen as a driving force behind science fact in many ways.

Today’s science fiction just leads kids to believe we’ll just rape pillage and loot our way across the cosmos.

[KevinDavis]

The type of SciFi, that we need is some kind of story that shows the need for space exploration..

[tet68]

Sadly, what it will take is a large meteor strike to
make the earth’s inhabitants realize how fragile our
toehold on earth is.

[KevinDavis]

It is either going to take a meteor strike, a major epidemic, or a major war to make people realize that...

[cripplecreek]

Robert Forward’s “Saturn Rukh” is one of my favorite and most hated books. I enjoyed the realism of it and hated the realism of it.

Unfortunately he was correct about what would happen if we find even primitave life. That planet would be forever off limits due to sentiments here on earth.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Community organizing and shakedowns too.

[tet68]

An epidemic will not do it, it has to COME from
space. It has to come from beyond our sphere of existance.

Perhaps a major impact on the moon would do it, some thing
that changes the moon in a visible way to make man
see how puny and vulnerable he really is tied down
to this one home.

It is the element of many good SF stories.