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Brazilian Rocket Explodes on Launch Pad
steman writes "BBC News Online says that 16 people have been killed and a Brazillian space rocket was destroyed in an explosion in Brazil. It seems that the space race is heating up again, with many countries getting involved such as China, Europe and Japan to name just three. Will the future of space exploration be dominated by names other than Russia and the USA?"
I guess we might not get to see the remake of Amazon Women on The Moon too soon.
OH THE SHAME I fell off the wagon and use sigs again!
Will the future of space exploration be dominated by names other than Russia and the USA?
Not with exploding rockets they won't.
Perhaps a maintenance crewman answered his cellphone
while filling up the tank?
You know, I was all ready to harp on you for saying "incentivize", but dictionary.com says it's a word. Stupid American Heritage Dictionary. Sheesh, next thing you know, "veep" will be a word....
(Look it up.)
Maybe it's the no-brand batteries they got from the flea market?
You say, "When it comes to sex, the women are fucking Olympians?" What exactly do you mean? I live in Olympia, Washington, and I am ready to change my travel plans if you can confirm this for me.
Europe is a country like Canada is the 51st state.
Because, yes, Slashdot is too American-centric.
Interesting, according to the same source the US has an external debt of:
$862 billion (1995 est.)
"Between strong and weak, between rich and poor [...], it is freedom which oppresses and the law which sets free"
"For those who think that Europe is a developing country"
What about those though don't think Europe is a country at all?
Brevity be damned! This is Slashdot and we demand accuracy and precision in our unsubstantiated opinions.
Now what about 53, 54, and 55? Afganistan, Iraq, and Liberia or France, Germany, and Japan?
I drank what? -- Socrates
You're wrong, dude. Werner von Braum was born in Omaha, NE; his great grandparents immigrated from Boston, MA during the Great Covered Wagon Migration of 1923. I saw it on Fox.
Yeah, right.
Well, at just $6.5-million dollars for the rocket, essentially they come free.
That's the coffee tab for NASA for a month.
Can anyone enlighten us on how it's possible to have a credible space program based on rockets that cost 6.5-million dollars?