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NASA says Columbia Rescue was Possible
nuke-alwin writes "Apparently NASA is saying that a rescue mission may have been possible for the Columbia crew. I first saw this on TV, but Chicago Sun-Times is also reporting the story. The risks would have been great, and may have endangered more astronaut's lives."
we develope force drives like an anti-gravity drive.
then we can propel ourselfs into orbit and further through repeling forces.
I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
At the risk of sounding horribly insensitive... If someone were to develop a "vaccine" to cure all diseases and hunger, how long do you think the Earth could support the population increase? How about the impact of an immortality pill? And, IIRC, about 42,000 people died on the highways in 2001. That's about 3 times more people than American soldiers lost in the deadliest year of the Vietnam war (from the US viewpoint, I'm not sure what the non-US losses were). Some people complain about the amount of money the US government spends. But, if they stop spending that money, how many people will lose their job?
Well. I don't completely understand you, but I do agree with your last point.
I didn't mean that the US should stop spending money, but I wonder if the money couldn't be more well spent on better causes. I pulled up the vaccine/traffic deaths because you would propably see a better money/lives saved ratio in that scenario.
Actually, I'm glad you pointed that out.
....Bethanie....
In my search for a reference to back up my use of the slang term, I found information that pointed me to the correct spelling of the word. It's "cojones" with an "O" (used in Spain -- huevos is preferred in Mexico). Live and learn!
But dude, cojones, huevos, balls o lo que sea -- they're all slang, it all works. I know what I'm talking about. Trust me.
Curing disease is great at the micro level, but what about the macro level? You always hear about people wanting to cure world hunger, or completely eliminating AIDS (and other diseases). What happens if they all succeed? Has anyone done the math to see what population the Earth can support and how quickly we would reach that population if all diseases were removed from the equation?
I'm not suggesting we stop medical research or anything like that - but we do need to be careful what we wish for. And hopefully, someone is trying to figure out what would happen if we did succeed in removing disease.