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Prsident Bush Cancels Space Shuttle Program
CDQZ writes "US President George W Bush declared today that he had signed a rare presidential decree canceling any further expenditure of Federal funds on the US Space Shuttle program."
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... but ... is this really the frist post?
Wow.
Stupid of Bush to cancel it. Ah well. :p
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so what, are we boycotting this supposed "april-fools mediocrity" by going on a posting strike?
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nice APrIl fOOlz dayses jokE
We shall stand back in awe at this article from The Mysterious Past...
As for the "story" itself, I wouldn't particularly mind if it were true... but then again, I didn't RTFA.
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Art Bell cover this last week along with Richard C Hoglan. Yea the monument of Mars guy.
This the so called problems with the Space Station and the Hubble being forced off line. Its to hid the fact that Planet X is comming next month to smash into the Earth. Wiping out everthing!
They want to use the remining shuttles as escape pod for key memebers of the goverment.
Kind of Ta Ta! And thanks you for the Fish!
Well?
I think everyone's too busy posting on all the April Fools threads to actually read news.
Maybe tomorrow we'll have a video of the Pope on TV saying "Haha! Prank! Fooled ya!!"
João Pinheiro
Hmm, trying to read the article, Firefox tells me it has blocked a popup window, but nevertheless opening one. This is not kind. In addition to that I cannot (easily) go back using the back button. Ugly site...
Roman Kennke
During the press conference Bush told reporters, "I don't want to see another NASA administrator - appointed on my watch - left to justify a program to Congress based on lies, dis-information, half-truths and sexed up reports."
Would it help if we meniotned the Weapons of Mass Destruction that can be found there?
haha.. april fools! (I hope)
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I really hate this stupid f'ing "holiday". . . .
...but that's a stretch. Bush supported a large increase for funding to NASA a little while back, so it's a complete 360.
:)
April fools jokes need to be more subtle.
If the Bush Administration cancelled the space shuttle program, they'd do it by passing a "Space Access Freedom Act". Except it would be better named, and would work out to an acronym of SUPER or SPACETACULAR or STARS or something like that.
Wah!
ROFLMAO, idiots.
Second most powerful nation? And whom would the most powerful nation be?
The Astronomy Picture of the Day site http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html is about breaking news the water has been found on mars.
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The only interesting thing about this article is the fact that so few people have posted in reply to a front-page article. Still, it is April 1st, and /. has been on dead-horse beating mode...
According to the article, Bush says "I don't want to see another NASA administrator - appointed on my watch - left to justify a program to Congress based on lies, dis-information, half-truths and sexed up reports."
Using that logic, shouldn't we cancel everything the US goverment does!
I just want to know when you will donate your heart and kidneys to someone who, unlike yourself, can do something useful with them.
Your brain, obviously being putrid mush, can be fed to cockroaches.
because the article says that the press at the white house received Easter Eggs from officials. Surely not.... right?
The British of course. God save the Queen!
I believe there stupid enough to do it anyway....
On the other hand, since the US is almost broke they will have no option but to cancel in the near future, would be a shame though.
Anyways Ebay bids start at 100 euro's...
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I believe there stupid enough to do it anyway....
On the other hand, since the US is almost broke they will have no option but to cancel in the near future, would be a shame though.
Anyways Ebay bids start at 100 euro's...
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This has to be a joke. The shuttle is schedule to launch in May. Please tell me this is a joke.
Sometimes geeks can be so gullible...
I think this paragraph gives it away:
During the press conference Bush told reporters, "I don't want to see another NASA administrator - appointed on my watch - left to justify a program to Congress based on lies, dis-information, half-truths and sexed up reports."
The way I see it, it's basically commentary on how the WMD reports and the failure to find any. There was a new report that came out a couple of days ago saying that our intelligence was, quote, "dead wrong." I think this is a reference to that report.
(at least, I hope...)
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(Yes, I know it's an April Fool's joke. A foolish nation and its overpriced, underperforming launch system are not soon parted.)
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And if you weren't such a Bush hater you would have realized that this isn't really a good April Fool's joke.
Now something like: 'Bush offers to be among first lunar/mars colonists if Congress agrees to fund it', could have been spun into a much funnier joke that both sides could have gotten a laugh out of.
Bush says "we got these at walmart"
The only association that man has ever had with a Wal-Mart may be reviewing their stock options. You don't buy stuff from Wal-Mart if you wear Armani...
Anyone remember what STS, as in "mission STS-nnn" stands for? It was supposed to be a Space Transportation System. The shuttle was originally intended to be one component of the system, but due to budget cutbacks the rest of the system didn't get built.
Similarly, due to budget cutbacks, the ISS can't be staffed enough to do any worthwhile research. Although they're still planning to expand it (which will be completed by about the time it has reached the end of its working life), they never built the crew escape vehicle, so they still can't have more than three astronauts/cosmonauts there unless the space shuttle is nearby.
People say that the space program is worthwhile for the technologies developed and spun off, but the Space Shuttle hasn't been doing that for years now. It's the space equivalent of a beat-up '57 pickup truck. At least it's useful if it can service something that does produce worthwhile results, like the Hubble. But if it can't do that any longer, what's the point?
C'mon, if we're going to build a space vehicle, let's build something that can actually go somewhere. And if we're going to build a space station, let's build something big enough to be useful (ideally rotating), with escape vehicles designed from the outset, rather than being an afterthought that gets cancelled.
I'm fairly happy with Bush's space plan, but let's do away with the ridiculous crap we're wasting money on now. I don't see any point to more shuttle missions if they're not going to service the Hubble.
And as far as the supposed risk goes, I doubt that NASA would have any trouble whatsoever getting enough of their astronauts to volunteer for a Hubble servicing mission, even if it is believed to be somewhat more risky than a mission to ISS. Note that NASA has not even done the risk analysis for a Hubble mission; they just decided a priori that it's dangerous!
Sigh.
4/1 or not, actually cancelling the STS and redirecting the funds to the next gen SSTO would be a good decision.
I agree with the idea of cancelling the gov as well. As it stands, much of the gov has already cancelled itself anyway. They do nothing constructive. What we need to do is cancel their paychecks.
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LMAO! Of course, using that criteria, we'll be up to our armpits in spare donor organs in no time. :)
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If you're going to make an April fools joke you might as well spell President right.
If not for the bad spelling I would have thought real news had made it through the April Fools foder.... :-)
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that shit aint funny! i wouldnt put it past him . hb
Dropping the E from President. Awww.. how cleverly juvenile!
NASA immediately re-named its launch vehicles to "Death Gliders", and found that their budget had suddenly increased by $120 billion.
"This quote is a product of the Frobozz Magic Quote Company."
"We cannot find any justification to continue deficit funding of a program that has no application other that proving that with enough money America can do anything," said Bush.
I thought he was talking about the Iraq liberation.
of this immediate threat of being poked in the eye by terrarists with their shuttles. These weapons should not fall into terrarists' hands.
Bush calls for more subsidies to the AMTRAC.
Or Bush produces the money to save the Hubble Telescope.
Or Bush's IQ has risen considerably after the last measurement by 92 thus he is the smartest president of the USA ever.
You can't handle the truth.
don't you think?
Although I will point out that there is another even more pragmatic reason not to campaign against birth control: rampant overpopulation throughout the world which will only get worse.
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