Posted on 08/09/2005 1:18:11 PM PDT by LibWhacker
So was the dry dirt in WATERWORLD.
Not to mention the cost of hydro.
Those tracks look like the tires are going over mud instead of sand. Weird.
That is step two. Step one is property rights in some form.
Whoa! There's no way those are natural formations!
You must have no conception of what it takes to just reach Mars intact, much less pull off a mission far beyond all that could be hoped for. I watched a recent special on Discovery Channel about this. There was far more to this feat than I had ever imagined.
BTW, we had better OWN space! If we do not, the Chicoms will. That's a fact!
LLS
Actually, I have a very good conception of what it takes.
I was simply making a comment about the bald statistics for Mars missions: the success rate really is only about 60%. You can look it up.
The Hubble is not a manned vehicle. Granted, the launch & upkeep were made possible by the shuttle. Question- can the average man on the street name a single astronaut from the shuttle that landed this morning? The excitement generated by Mercury, Gemini and Apollo has faded into virtual ignorance and apathy about what we're doing.
They look real. I found the patches here.
Why, if the FedGov won't grant private property rights?
I really didn't mean for the opening of my post to be so smarmy. I was discussing my amazement at what it takes to achieve Mars orbit. Sorry if I offended.
The success rate is very good considering how hard it is to do. We are becoming more proficient with each mission.
LLS
If the Chicoms own the high ground, you will not have ANY rights!
LLS
No doubt. However, we as private citizens have no property rights to land in outer space as it is.
Do a little research before you continue to make a fool of yourself.
REad the book 'the chip', about the design and building of the first computer chip, and how it took off.
The plain truth is that if not for hte space race, and the government pouring massive amounts of money into it - the chip industry would have labored MUCH longer than it did. We would likely be ten or more years behind where we are in the field of computers. And every field that relies on them - including medicine, defense - well, practically everything - would still be sputtering along at late 80's speed.
But hey, if you want to keep posting stupid things for everyone to see, don't worry. The space program made it possible for you to do it.
Seems so, but we should immediately begin a $100 billion manned program, just to make sure.
The space race did contribute to high tech development...of course.....
But so did the Cold War, Hollywood, medicine and the toy industry.
I contend that the high tech revolution would have arrived just as soon without manned space vehicles.
Once the horizons were extended for personal use of computer technology, the force of the marketplace took over.
Now it's government science that has to catch up and beg for new gadgets.
Wow. Did anyone else know that there were rocks, sand and ancient lava flows on mars?
Next thing you know we are going to be told there are ancient canals that could have once held water!
My God how much did this financial abortion cost us?
If they find a dead body with a Lincoln Log in it's temple....I didn't do it, but I need that piece back to finish my replica of Abraham Lincoln's boyhood cabin.
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