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Congress Plans Space Tourism Regulation
ackthpt writes "No new venture seems to escape some regulation, as is the case with the budding space tourism industry.
As I piloted my personal groundcraft through pea-soup fog this morning
(observing about half the others driving with lights off) CNN News mentioned
impending regulation and legislation
is on the way to govern commercial space transportation. Among concerns are safety of uninvolved public (to ensure
boosters or other launch vehicle parts don't land on the unsuspecting public), assessing risk to passengers and level of fitness
necessary to withstand the forces and conditions of spaceflight. Addressing such concerns are the FAA's office of commercial space transportation and the Commerce Department's Office of Space Commercialization and of course the US Congress."
It's clear to me that this has nothing to do with safety or any other reason. The US Congress wants to tax the SHIT out of this, and nothing more. I'm sure the lefties will want to hire some more gov't bureaucrats to do absolutely nothing but waste space and issue worthless directives, memorandums, and whatever else it might take to make a "busy" government office look... well... busy.
Wait til you see the taxes.
Wait til you hear the lefties crying about the poor people that have no more cheesy poofs and beer while the rich get to fly into space.
Yep... tax the shit out of space travel. That way, only the rich will be able to afford it.
You guys are a bunch of idiots.
You can have a story of the government helping children and you'll all mouth off that the government should have let nature run its course and let them starve.
Sueing has only so much merit when you're dead.
Regulation is good, regardless of your childish ideas that *any government oversight is bad*.
Congress can fuck a lot of things up, but voting a majority republican in both house and senate and as the president has shown, 4 years and all they can do is fuck up the economy, start a bullshit war, pass pandering anti-abortion laws (nothing has stuck yet), do nothing to stop an impending terrorist attack on american soil, and fool 45% of the morons in this country into thinking they've done a good job. I guess that is why they never let the president speak, he doesn't know what to say without a teleprompter.
All vehicles to be test-piloted only by libertarians...
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
How does it feel to be so horrendously stupid that you can't separate an incident from its intentions?
Or, are you psychic? Or do you have some insight nobody else does?
Or, more likely, was that a politically motivated charge with an intent for CBS that you made up completely on the spot, or, perhaps, heard from one of your bullhorn-equipped retards like that pill popping hippy Rush Limbaugh?
Imbecile.
Alito: A vote for Alito is a punch in the eye to put that bitch back in her place!
Score:-1, Liberal Idiot
Hahahahaha!!! You can't argue the facts, so you resort to name calling. But, being a Republican, you are not likely to let your opinion be swayed by facts anyway. Seen any Iraqi WMDs yet?
Republicans bragging about economic growth is like the Orkin man bragging about termite population growth.