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TheLoneCabbage writes "Texas Rep. Joe Barton has been quoted today in an AP article saying that he is in favor of grounding the remaining fleet of shuttles. 'If we have to stop manned spaceflight for five or 10 years, then so be it.' The fine gentleman from Texas displays his outstanding grasp of statistics and engineering stating that 1 failure in every 62.5 flights is NOT acceptable. According to OpenSecrets.org this may have more to do with Joe's friends than how much attention he paid to his math teachers." There's also an interesting piece on testimony given by the first Shuttle program manager.
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21:53 9/5/2546
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TOPIC: AERODYNAMICS
SKUDOS to every Astronaut thet flew on a spaceshuttle.
i mean i was eight years old and saw a wire frame of the
spaceshuttle on an old CAD programm on my friends dads computer.
i asked him if this was a new airplane. he laught and said no, but a SPACESHIP.
i didn't believe him. the aerodynamics on the spaceshuttle are
sending up a cube would probably have better aerodynamics. my god!
i think the efficience is something minus 3, so they have to sacrifice a
few astronouts once in a while for the space-travelling-god to close one eye.
and:
must be a loser senator. the light bulb breaks, so lets stop using them.
how about installing a neon-tube they last way longer
why if it really WERE a senator, he'd go to church and summon pres. kennedys spirit,
and the pres. would answer: "improve, improve, we've got the russian to beat!"
he'd dump the equivalent of the irak-war on NASA and fire EVERY boss that let's another
astronaut die 20 years after they've been to the moon.
(actually in china they secretly poison the manager if he let's his company become flawed in a minor way.)
i got a designe for a reussable ROCKET. the engine parachutes down. just needs some
checking and refuel and up it goes again. good for a tousand time. more if you like, but
then we got to think about the econmomy. if we always use the same rocket they're all out of work
it would be silly of the americans to forget real-space and just live in cyberspace.
as i read somewhere: "in russia, space logs onto you".
NO really please please dear disigners THINK about aerodynamics, PLEASE! your design is like a cadillace
its for your ego, and maybe the ego of your girlfriend, alot of cheap crap around a
cheaper engine, but it "looks" good. i dunno
oh and WHEN you do make a new spacecraft, DONT watch P0rn, they got the cheesiest design around. your mind
needs to be CLEAN (ZENwisdom). go watch some butterfly, bettlebugs,grasshoppers. now THERE's design!
a rockets not a an aeroplane! maybe they should hire a guy from ferrari or honda for the aerodynamics.
oh and something else. why are your satellits always in one piece? why isn't there a
observertory module and radiolink module, an engine-module, etc?
at least we could reuse the radiolink module?
and something else: why are you stealing from the planet? why aren't your satellits you're sending so far not coming back.
someday, voyager will have accumulated 20 tonnes of debris and crash back on earth.
and did you know, every spaceshuttle is ALREADY running on PLUTONIUM/URANIUM.
where do you think they are getting the energy to make hydrogen? AND: every hydrogen car's
so far is running on uranium/plutonium. see above. mega cover-up.
MAEH, i'm feeling dumber everyday.