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NASA Admin Says Shuttle and ISS are Mistakes
Teancum writes "NASA Administrator Michael Griffin was recently interviewed by the USA Today Editorial Board regarding the current direction of the U.S. Space Program, and in the interview he suggested that the past three decades have been a huge mistake and a waste of resources. As a total cost for both programs that has exceeded $250 Billion, you have to wonder what other useful things could have been developed using the same resources. Griffin quoted in the interview regarding if the shuttle had been a mistake "My opinion is that it was... It was a design which was extremely aggressive and just barely possible." Regarding the ISS: "Had the decision been mine, we would not have built the space station we're building in the orbit we're building it in.""
That's exactly the reasoning I use when arguing FOR the Big Dig here in Boston.
Spending 250 Billion on a space shuttle doesn't prevent the terrorists from attacking us. We're over killing them in Iraq so we don't have to fight them again in New York, sure the money spent on the research will be necessary in the long run, but the 250 Billion being spent in Iraq to protect us will ensure that we HAVE a long run in which to have a space station. I'm suprised more scientists don't get this it's very clear and logical.
Or all the laser stuff which came out of Reagan's SDI.
"Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead." (John Maynard Keynes)
and lets not forget the dolphins with dart guns *nods*
I think most of us SysAdmins new that IIS was a mistake for years now.
Omg what are you talking about, we got the memory foam bed out of nasa teknol0gy. Definately worth the 250 billion
Think about that a little and get back to me...
Imagine the beowulf cluster you could build with $250 billion!
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On the dark side? Surely you mean the-side-that-we-don't-see-but-is-lit-by-the-sun-j ust-as-much-as-the-side-we-do-see-and-would-requir e -far-more-effort-to-build-and-maintain-than-a-spac e-based-observatory-with-no-real-advantage.
> > Imagine if the Space ship One team had 250 billion...
> They would probably become just as inefficient as NASA.
1/2 billion on Spaceship One, 249 1/2 billion on whores and cocaine.
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