Space Shuttle's Left Wing May Be Damaged

nbc4.com ^ | 20070612 | NBC News space correspondent Jay Barbree

[Army Air Corps]

Yep, that is what the press reports say. Hopefully, he stays on for a while.

[HardStarboard]

>>>A different propulsion method that doesn't require 93457932475 gallons of fuel in a tank the size of a skyscraper.<<<

You a graduate of the Al Gore School of Global Warming and Physics?

[The Duke]

We need to stop putting people up there.

I totally agree. We ought to be using test pilots! Those guys live for this "Buck Rogers" stuff. :)

[Army Air Corps]

There was a very short-lived TV show with that premise. IIRC, it starred Andy Griffith.

[IslandJeff]

Now one would think that information would be readily apparent. Pounding a quart of Bass could be rendered meaningless by weightlessness.

I think the organic acts of swallowing and breathing are “weightless”, but you know stuff isn’t always moving toward the back of the theater...

[IslandJeff]

“Salvage One”. A mad old guy who washed out of NASA with some rogue engineers. Fun show at the time, we’d wince watching it today.

[Alas Babylon!]

Better than that, EVERYONE will die. Not a matter of if, but when.

So, to the naysayers I’d ask, “How much is your life worth? Can you quantify it? In dollars? How much would you be willing to pay to get an extra day, or month, or year, or even decade?” So worthiness/worthlessness is subjective.

If we remain only on this World, we will eventually run out of resources, an asteroid or comet will hit it, or a super disease will strike, in essence, we’ll go extinct.

Nothing could be more selfish and foolish to our progeny than to stay here on Earth.

Mankind MUST move into Space or die out.

[buccaneer81]

It’s expensive, worthless and most of all, dangerous.

I'm sure many Europeans in the 16th century felt the same way about the New World.

[Army Air Corps]

Well, I am thinking of the effects of getting hammered. For example, when that “spinning room” sensation kicks in. Also, would a hangover be more bearable or less bearable?

[Old Professer]

The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming...

[IslandJeff]

We can’t be fooled, here. You KNOW after sixscore-plus missions someone up there had a drink or two. Hell, I’d raise a sealed bottle of Maker’s Mark to my first Earthrise.

[Army Air Corps]

That’s it!

I think that YouTube has the pilot episode.

[Old Professer]

Really...?

[X-FID]

What kind of alien;)

[buccaneer81]

I just think that a shuttle mission from start to finish, at a cost of just about 1 billion dollars, is a disgusting waste.

So are farm subsidies, food stamps and medicare. They all consume more than NASA's paltry $15 billion budget (four tenths of one percent of the total federal budget.)

[Old Professer]

I’m 67, after awhile you get used to people dying.

[metmom]

bump

[tricky_k_1972]

I GUARANTY you some Russian Cosmonaut has “experimented” and tested this throughly.

[Army Air Corps]

LOL!

I also have pondered “indelicate” questions such the mechanics of a guy and a gal, um, “docking”. I have heard folks say that it can be done in water, but zero-g and micro-g are still a bit different than being in a neutral buoyancy tank.

[advertising guy]

it would work as animation now.