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Arwon
Posts: 367/506 |
The militarisation of space is gonna be awesome. |
alte Hexe
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Originally posted by Arwon
Exactly. Roll on the Chinese space program.
At the current, the Russians are making a new delivery system for astronauts and payloads. Been under development for years. Some say it is Buran being rebuilt and put into operaton. Some say that they are making a low cost alternative.
The Chinese. 5 or 10 years they'll be a threat. Currently, they can put a man in space using old Russian rocket technology. On the other hand, they did design the capsule themselves... |
Arwon
Posts: 364/506 |
Exactly. Roll on the Chinese space program. |
alte Hexe
Posts: 4628/5458 |
It was just to spit in the Russkis eyes. Buran was technically more advanced than the shuttle (though very similar). After the Soviets collapsed...Yeah. Why bother? |
geeogree
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What I don't understand is why are we still flying into space using technology that is over a quarter century old.... and has shown several times now that it can fail... |
alte Hexe
Posts: 4619/5458 |
No, it's probably the potentially deadly problem with the hydrogen fuel tank. |
Legion
Posts: 4715/5657 |
What's up with NASA anyway? Is it just me or is something telling them not to take this trip? |
Kefka
Posts: 3261/3392 |
NASA doesn't perform? A-heh...... |
||bass
Posts: 645/817 |
Originally posted by Legion
Originally posted by beneficii
Originally posted by Arwon
You're aware of how incredibly small an amount of money $73 000 dollars is compared to the US budget, right? You understand the relationship between thousands and billions?
Why are you going after me on this? Be it thousands or billions, this just shows how easy Congress is with our money.
Their trip cost me roughtly 1/10000th of a cent.
I am not upset.
I LOL'd. Well said leg...
To put things in perspective.... The cost of this trip represents less than 0.000000006% of the overall GDP and about 0.00000003% of the government's annual budget.
I am not concerned. |
Legion
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Originally posted by beneficii
Originally posted by Arwon
You're aware of how incredibly small an amount of money $73 000 dollars is compared to the US budget, right? You understand the relationship between thousands and billions?
Why are you going after me on this? Be it thousands or billions, this just shows how easy Congress is with our money.
Their trip cost me roughtly 1/10000th of a cent.
I am not upset. |
beneficii
Posts: 273/567 |
Originally posted by Arwon
You're aware of how incredibly small an amount of money $73 000 dollars is compared to the US budget, right? You understand the relationship between thousands and billions?
Why are you going after me on this? Be it thousands or billions, this just shows how easy Congress is with our money. |
Arwon
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You're aware of how incredibly small an amount of money $73 000 dollars is compared to the US budget, right? You understand the relationship between thousands and billions? |
beneficii
Posts: 272/567 |
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/14/AR2005071401366.html
Look at what one Congressdude said:
"Boehlert called the cancellation "a NASA success story" because the space agency identified the problem before the launch and is working on a solution."
LOL, at least he's trying to look on the bright side of things. Then again, NASA just doesn't perform.
"NASA said the launch scrub cost the space agency an estimated $616,000 in fuel and labor."
Hmm, I remember hearing somewhere that my PS2 is more high-tech then that old piece-of-crap shuttle.
"Forty-four members of Congress flew to Cape Canaveral for the scrubbed launch of space shuttle Discovery at a cost of more than $73,000, according to figures provided to The Associated Press on Thursday."
This is the most outrageous part. |
