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Brazil Successfully Launches Its First Rocket To Space
thatshortkid writes "The Washington Times is reporting on Brazil's first successful space launch. Since it is closer to the equator, the task of getting up to space is easier, meaning much more cargo room over fuel. Hello commercial launch market! With this development, along with China's expanding space program, India making moves to space, and our own homegrown (ok, still growing) private space industry, where does this put NASA? Does it take a load off of them to pursue bigger endeavors, or will NASA slowly decline in relevance?"
That's kinda like all the power of the slashdot effect, only harnessed for good[1], not evil.
(Anything that gets more brazilians off this planet must be a good thing, right?)
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Didn't your economy partially collapse? Argentina simply doesn't have the financial means to support a space program, especially when the general public is having a hard time paying their utility.
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more unregulated space junk.
I think we need a very strong Earth orbit governance body with the US and Russia as permanent members (were we were the first up there).
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>the American government should force the Mexican government, the Chinese government, and the Indian government out of the free market
The american goverment should just fuck itself and all of it mega-fat citizens
I'm all for the US goverment enforcing death penalty for everyone over 220lb
How about your people force your goverment to tell the truth? To not rig votes?
You are a fscking third world country by all standards.
...someones going into space!
I was befuddled when the NASA "space dog" project
failed...(dog died)
I have a pretty good feeling Brazil is
going to pick up the slack! I'll have to
consider Brazil my next travel destination,
"been to space!" always helps with that decision.
Come on people, the Brazilian space program is *very* tiny, not a match for China's or India's, and certainly not Slashdot matter.
On another front, I used to have high hopes in the Japanese space program, but it seems it didn't get too far, and got surpasses by Chinas's. Am I right here ?
Have you heard of satelites? They are these robotic things people put into space to serve (among other things) their communication needs. It just so happens, that sending these things to space is REALLY EXPENSIVE. But a country such as Brazil can possibly produce a space launch mechanism that is cheaper than the alternatives, thereby MAKING LOTS OF MONEY.
The concept (which seems hard for you to grasp) is called "INVESTMENT". Spend on EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT to get into a VIABLE BUSINESS to make yourself self-sufficient.
Or is Brazil getting too upity. Maybe it should request freebees from the US instead?
Yours truly,
your brother Beeves
I'll bet you any money they weren't native Brazilians. Absolutely without exception, all of the Brazilians I've had the misfortune to meet were fat, stupid, and incredibly aggressive - certainly not sufficiently mentally endowed to put a rock through a window three-out-of-three, much less anything into space. Take off and nuke 'em from space I say, it's the only way to be sure.
your best comeback is a display of racist ignorance straight out of the nineteenth century?
Actually, it's a display of fact spoken from actual experience, and if that makes me racist (a term you clearly don't understand) then dip me in honey and feed me to the lesbians (but not Brazilian lesbians thanks)
I hate grad students that feel the need to make themselves look smart. Use real world words ass. The delta in front of that v stands for something, show your true genius and just fucking say change in velocity you stuck up ninny.
Considering how useful these people are likely to be in the global economy of the next 30 years (i.e., "not at all"), perhaps death squads (a) aren't such a bad idea, and (b) the US would do well to follow Brazil's lead in dealing with its own underclass.