Posted on 09/14/2005 6:11:02 AM PDT by Arkie2
Science and exploration, knowledge--DOA. Goodies for pilot wannabes.
The private sector will develop space travel. In 10 or 15 years we might be able to book a flight to Mars on Virgin Galactic.
As the girly Saganite speaks..
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It's all a big boondoggle anyway. We need a man on Mars because? I guess for the same reason we need to explore the outer planets. To transfer tax money to more government employees.
No person is ever gonna make it to Mars, thanks to the infantile Disneyride boys.
Flapdoodle.
In 10 to 15 years, they may have an orbital that you can afford a ticket to take a ride on.
Whatever...
Just what is this "Saganite" term you keep tossing around?
I knew Carl Sagan. I even appeared on both TLC and the Discovery Channel with him.
Nuclear propulsion? Project Orion, or something else entirely?
Well, this whole situation sucks all around.
NASA SHUTDOWNS:
the results of the P.C. dumbing down of America. chop the budget for imagination, innovation, invention, science and mathematics.
Let's ridicule the one agency that was responsible for the greatest increases in technology EVER! Can't have the USA number one!
Let's make America the WORST in all fields since we cannot be the best anymore thanks to the anti-america leftists and their little helpers in the public schools and colleges and in al areas of govt.
Nikita has won! He WILL bury you - with your own shovels of ignorance.
Exploration and knowledge are vital to our species, this country and the security of this country.
You and I have gone round this one before on a number of occasions.
Sure we will... the private sector hasn't even made an orbital flight yet, and won't even be able to carry passengers on sub-orbital flights until 2008 at the earliest. Sub orbital to orbital flight is an enormous difference. It takes much more energy to get to orbital flight, and then you have the difficult problem of reentry. Achieving the velocity required just to reach the moon is daunting (ever seen how big a Saturn V is?)... Mars? Maybe the private sector will get manned flight there in 100-200 years, but don't hope for anything sooner...
Not Orion.
See:
http://prometheus.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm?pageL1=overview
Project Prometheus, a program to couple a fission reactor with an ion drive to power future deep space exploration. Nuclear power is required because of the lack of solar power at those distances. Add it to the dustbin of other worthwhile projects scrapped at NASA to fund manned flight.
As if anyone will loose their jobs. They will just move their desks across the hall to the Crew Exploration Vehicle class.
Does anyone seriously think NASA will quit wasting huge amounts of money?
And why is it so important to travel to outer "planets" that are uninhabitable anyways? Spending billions for a picture which usually ends up creating more questions than answers.
"look! ice!" Big deal.
Frankly, I don't care about the jobs. It's prometheus' cancellation itself that is the issue here.
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