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NASA to offer $100 billion moon program
Reuters ^
| September 18, 2005
Posted on 09/18/2005 4:50:22 PM PDT by RWR8189
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posted on
09/18/2005 4:50:25 PM PDT
by
RWR8189
To: RWR8189
Can't afford it. We're being forced to rebuild $200 Billion worth of slums below sea level.
George Bush Jr. promised. We wouldn't want to embarrass such a generous guy.
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posted on
09/18/2005 4:51:34 PM PDT
by
Hank Rearden
(Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
To: RWR8189
Considering the bill from Katrina and the war in Iraq, their timing is...unfortunate.
To: RWR8189
For a hundred billion I'd moon my own mother.
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posted on
09/18/2005 4:52:57 PM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: RWR8189
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posted on
09/18/2005 4:53:06 PM PDT
by
Sometimes A River
("The leaves have broken on Lake Ponktran" - WKAT 1360 AM Miami Newsreader)
To: RWR8189
"NASA is set to unveil plans on Monday to take people and cargo to the moon."
Hey NASA, unless the people you are taking are N.O. refugees, you can forget about it!!!
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posted on
09/18/2005 4:53:12 PM PDT
by
frankjr
To: Non-Sequitur
Must have meant Moon Landrieu.
To: RWR8189
As long as we're going to borrow some more money to pay for it, what the heck.
Just don't tax me.
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posted on
09/18/2005 4:55:24 PM PDT
by
Doe Eyes
Comment #9 Removed by Moderator
To: saganite
I'd rather advance science and send men to the Moon and Mars than spend billions of dollars rebuilding a city built below sea level.
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posted on
09/18/2005 4:57:32 PM PDT
by
RWR8189
( Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
To: RWR8189
Some people have a real bad case of rocket ass to even think Americans want this now.
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posted on
09/18/2005 4:57:57 PM PDT
by
jwh_Denver
(Aren't the phrases "it's Bush Fault" and "Deeply Saddened" really worn out?)
To: RWR8189
I hope we beat the Soviets!
To: RWR8189
Given NASA's recent record it is more likely that "NASA to offer $100 billion moon program" will turn out more as follows:
- The budget doubles to $200 billion
- NASA generates huge amounts of paper
- The NASA bureaucracy flourishes
- They do not get to the moon on time, if at all, and
- They have lots of very good reasons why the couldn't do what the old NASA did in much less time in the 1960s.
Hope this isn't true, but I wouldn't bet the rent money that NASA gets to the moon on schedule.
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posted on
09/18/2005 5:00:08 PM PDT
by
Coyoteman
(Is this a good tagline?)
To: RWR8189
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posted on
09/18/2005 5:00:10 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
(The political battles of our day are battles over morality, between the haves and the have nots.)
To: jwh_Denver
Some people have a real bad case of rocket ass to even think Americans want this now. That's OK. The Chinese do.
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posted on
09/18/2005 5:01:10 PM PDT
by
Coyoteman
(Is this a good tagline?)
To: RWR8189
100 bil is not enough. Unless they intend on turning it over to private industry. Like sort of an x-prize.
To: RWR8189
I'd rather advance science and send men to the Moon and Mars than spend billions of dollars rebuilding a city built below sea level.If you want to advance science, don't send men to the Moon and Mars. Spend a quarter of the money on telescopes and probes and get some real science done, and invest the rest in no-load mutual funds.
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posted on
09/18/2005 5:03:28 PM PDT
by
Alter Kaker
(Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.-Heine)
To: RWR8189
That sounds like enough to take care of new orleans cancel it we been there
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posted on
09/18/2005 5:06:51 PM PDT
by
Unicorn
(Too many wimps around.)
To: PositiveCogins
100 bil is not enough. Unless they intend on turning it over to private industry. Like sort of an x-prize. Do this like an x-prize and you could have people dancing on Pluto for 100 billion.
Seriously, the 100 billion parceled out to several or a dozen carefully-chosen tax-free x-prizes, offered to American companies only, would do the trick. We'd be back on the moon in much less time at a significantly reduced cost, and we would build the infrastructure we didn't build last time.
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posted on
09/18/2005 5:08:04 PM PDT
by
Coyoteman
(Is this a good tagline?)
To: Coyoteman
Hope this isn't true, but I wouldn't bet the rent money that NASA gets to the moon on schedule.
Don't forget NASA will help in a movie,where the husband of an astronaut, loses his wedding ring in the shower.
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posted on
09/18/2005 5:09:59 PM PDT
by
Mark was here
(How can they be called "Homeless" if their home is a field?.)
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