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Debunking the Trillion-Dollar Space Myth
jfoust writes "When the President and NASA announced the agency's new space initiative, including sending humans back to the Moon and on to Mars, many news reports claimed that the plan could cost as much as $1 trillion. According to this Space Review article, that trillion-dollar price tag is a myth: it was based on erroneous data and analysis, in large part by a single Associated Press reporter, and propagated by many other reporters too busy -- or too lazy -- to check on the facts. Could this kill the plan before it has a chance to start?"
Who wants to go to Mars when we have millions unemployed here on Earth/US ?
- The Bush-haters.o blems-here-on-Earth? myopic troglodytes.
- The Why-spend-all-that-money-in-space-when-we-have-pr
Then...
Cue:
- Apolitical insightful Shashdotters who realize the scientific, educational, spiritual, and economic benefits of space exploration to all humanity.
Carry on.
or perhaps he also took inspriation when... Bush Markets Burmese Products; Evades Own Trade Ban
there's no end to the fun in catching Dubya in his lies.
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With M$ new pricing policy and sco's take no prisoners attitude the Bush administration will have enough capital to finance the project. The only thing is that the NASA logo would be replaced by "Microsoft, opening the windows to the skys" and sco on the spokes of the landing gears. Multi-corps will probably be financing space exploration in the futre.
Humans are doomed to extinction on this fucking rock. I say, just nuke the rest of the world and use any survivors as slaves. We may die alone on this planet, but at least we'll die with dignity (except the slaves).
Also, I declare this -1, Flaimbate post for Israel! It's too bad not all terrorists are wheelchair bound. But you take what you can get, I guess.
Fuck Spain.
1) Bush does not really care if it is funded or not. The speech and goals are just political mumbo-jumbo, like his AIDS research promises...
And if Bush had failed to put forth any spending for Mars or for AIDS, you'd have been right there screaming "you see? He doesn't care about people or space exploration, he's just an insenstive conservative politician!" That's the problem with Bush-haters: if you don't do anything, you get lambasted for being uncaring. If you do propose something, you get lambasted for posturing and being uncaring.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I personally hope that this plan fails...simply for the fact that we need to be using this funding for other things such as Nanotechnology and Genetic Engineering. Once these technologies are mature, they will enable us to do many things that we aren't capable of doing at this point.
Sending people into space now is both utterly stupid, and extremely arrogant. We need to wait until the technology is mature enough to send us where we want to go, safely - and that simply is not the case with our current technology.
Death to the pathetic United States and all of its morons that come up with this shit.
Liberal media is a myth for the most part. Some reporters are liberal-leaning on social issues since they're highly educated, but since they make far more than the average family, they tend to lean further to the conservative on financial matters.
Read "What Liberal Media" for a good overview.
We might as well go back to wearing simple robes, stop using all this high-falutin' technocrap and go back to being 'mindless' peasants serving our Glorious Lord!
Shut your pie hole, you hack.
If you ignore the other uses of a tool, does that make the tool less useful, or you less useful?
it's all phonIE.
the scheduled moon/mars/bars shot is just more phonIE smoke&mirrors.?pr?.connage.
lookout bullow. the daze of the felonious corepirate nazi payper liesense stock markup FraUD hypenosys execrable, is WANing into coolapps/the abyss, at the speed of right.
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tell 'em robbIE. don't save everything for the interview?