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Pieces Coming Together For NASA's New Spacecraft
Matt_dk points out an update on the progress of development for NASA's Ares I launch rocket, excerpting:
"NASA is using powerful computers and software programs to design the rocket that will carry crew and cargo to space after the space shuttle retires. But those computers will have their work checked the old-fashioned way with the first of several uncrewed demonstration launches beginning in 2009. Ares I-X, the first Ares I test rocket, will lift off from Kennedy Space Center, Fla. in the summer of 2009. It will climb about 25 miles in a two-minute powered test of Ares I first stage performance and its first stage separation and parachute recovery system."
Reader coondoggie notes that NASA is also looking further afield, putting out the call for ideas on moon colonization. They'll be offering a variety of grants for projects which facilitate human activities that are "not reliant on Earth's resources."
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If you find this post offensive, don't read it! THINK ABOUT YOUR BREATHING! I am what I am because of how apes behave.
In pieces.
According to this it may not actually happen, in fact it may just be the beginning of the budgetary death spiral for the whole manned space program.
While the 20 some year old space shuttle (that was kind of funny, I mistyped it shittle the first time) ages not so gracefully, we need a replacement to move people and objects to the ISS. Obama is already talking about scaling back the most massive projects at NASA, and in today's econopolitical climate I doubt there is going to be a great deal of support behind new huge expensive rockets. For the amount of raw materials and fuel expended (yes, I know rockets can be relaunched) it doesn't strike me as a very efficient way to get into space. Where are the sleek little ships that we hop into and are in orbit in minutes? I know its science fiction (orbit takes a great deal of velocity and acceleration from 0 to such lofty speeds might take a bit of time), but we should be pouring a lot more of our money and time into finding better sources of energy and ways to harvest them. I mean, liquid fuel rockets are like whawt, 60-70 year old technology now? Nuclear technology....60 years roughly? All these advances happened at or near the end of World War II. Computers....oh wait...that was also about 60 some years ago. Sure every technology has been advanced, but when you look at the overall progress (transistors, notwithstanding) it has all been an evolution from these earlier examples, but nothing so revolutionary as they were in the first place. The combustion engine was developed over 100 years ago. Where is the Edison of the new age? Where is the Tesla of the 21st century? Could I be totally wrong in thinking that while our rate of knowledge is increasing at an exponential rate, our actual technology is increasing on a much, much flatter curve, if it is a curve at all.......?
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I submit David Hasselhoff is the AntiChrist
And I have the proof
How can one explain the phenomenal global success of one of this country's least talented individuals? There are only three ways.
* Mr. Hasselhoff actually is talented, but this goes unnoticed in his own country.
* Mr. Hasselhoff has sold his soul to Satan in return for global success.
* David Hasselhoff is the AntiChrist.
I vote for the latter -- and perhaps, after seeing the facts involved, the rest of the world will agree.
The Facts First, the obvious. Add a little beard and a couple of horns -- David Hasselhoff looks like the Devil, doesn't he? And the letters in his name can be rearranged to spell
fad of devil's hash.
What does this mean? Well, Baywatch is David's fad. David is the devil. The Hash is what makes Knight Rider popular in Amsterdam.
(I was actually hoping to make the letters in his name spell out he is of the devil, which would be possible if his middle name was "Ethesis," which it might be. I'm sure his publicist would hide such a middle name if it were true.)
Second -- and most importantly -- David Hasselhoff and his television series were foretold in the Bible. Biblical scholars worldwide may quibble over interpretations, but they all agree on this. For a few telling examples let's skip to the end of the Bible. If any book of the Bible will tell us who the AntiChrist is, it's the Revelation of Saint John, which basically describes the AntiChrist and the Armageddon He causes. I'll just give you the verse, and the current theological interpretation of that verse.
Who is the Beast?
Rev 13:1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns The Beast, of course, is David Hasselhoff. The Heads are His separate television incarnations. Young and the Restless, Revenge of the Cheerleaders, Knight Rider, Terror at London Bridge, Ring of the Musketeers, Baywatch and Baywatch Nights.
The ten horns represent His musical releases: Crazy For You, David, David Hasselhoff, Do You Love Me?, Du, Everybody Sunshine, I Believe, Looking For Freedom, Night Lover and Night Rockers.
Not only does Mitch The Lifeguard literally "rise out of the sea" on Baywatch, but David's musical career has mostly occurred in Europe, a metaphoric rise to fame from across the sea.
Rev 13:3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. Of course, this is a reference to his third head: Knight of the Phoenix, the first episode of Knight Rider. In this episode, "Michael Long, a policeman, is shot and left for dead. The shot is deflected by a plate in his head, but ruins his face. He is saved and his face reconstructed. He is reluctant, but agrees to use K.I.T.T. to help the Foundation for Law and Government fight criminals who are 'beyond the reach of the law'. " Knight Rider has been shown in 82 countries.
Rev 13:5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. The following blasphemies are actual quotes from David Hasselhoff -- I read these while he was 42 years old.
"I'm good-looking, and I make a lot of money."
"There are many dying children out there whose last wish is to meet me."
"I'm six foot four, an all-American guy, and handsome and talented as well!"
"Before long, I'll have my own channel -- I'll be like Barney."
"(Baywatch) is responsible for a lot of world peace." which the Hoff said at the Bollywood Oscars. Don't believe me? Read the original article!
And here's a blasphemy that came from David's recent (Feb 2004) visit to the Berlin Wall museum. I couldn't have made something this great up by myself. He was upset that the museum didn't spend more tim
What? You mean it's not Xenu who'll destroy the world? I call you an SP.
1970 called, they want their technology back.
When are we getting rail gun launch systems?
Single Stage to Orbit?
Aurora?
I am the unwilling control for my Origin.
...which is almost exactly opposite the approach that has caused problems with the vehicles of the past.
Welcome to the 21st Century - party on, dudes!!!
"the flight of Ares I-X will be an important step toward verifying analysis tools and techniques needed to further develop Ares I, NASA's next launch vehicle." A prototype I see. Makes sense. It's not an easy task to model and compute everything given the state of supercomputers. Helps to know some old school validation still works.
"The space agency is offering about $1 million grants under the Ralph Steckler/Space Grant Space Colonization Research and Technology Development program that has been established to help support a broad range of human activity in space that, for the most part, is not reliant on Earth's resources NASA said."
I wonder if that will include harvesting lunar Helium-3 for fusion research...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3
I bet those rocket designers from the 50's to the early 70's are laughing their butts off. They tell them in the mid 70's, we are going to abandon a PERFECT launch vehicle, and replace it with a glider. If the shuttle had been build AS DESIGNED, it would have been much safer than strapping a couple solid rocket motors and millions of gallons of hydrogen/oxygen. Now some 30 years after the last Saturn V launch, they are building a crew module/escape rocket that looks like a grown up version of the Apollo Command/Service module. a "triangle shaped" reentry vehicle is a cheap, perfect design to get people into & out of space. If they REALLY want to get into space faster, just have James T. Kirk do another time warp and bring the Enterprise back with him. Now that "transparent aluminum" is coming to reality, it's time that the warp engine come into being.
Pieces Coming Together For NASA's New Spacecraft
lets hope they stay together this time
Sid would be pleased. Once NASA assembles all of the pieces of the spacecraft we'll win a space race victory.
Just gotta get our scientific advances in Lasers sorted out to build the party deck.
Too bad, Obama is cancelling the Ares and new crew vehicle project "in these troubled times." Hope the russians keep building those Soyuz things.
On November 4, engineers and scientists throughout NASA and academia scratched their collective heads and asked, "Which Obama is the real Obama?"
Now, we have the answer. Obama recently returned to the idea of sacrificing NASA programs in favor of his political agenda.
As Obama dismantles the American space program, perhaps we Americans should look to Japan for leadership in the peaceful development of space.
Oh, does that mean the NASA engineers still have their old slide rules in a drawer somewhere? Or that they'll hire a bunch of people to sit at rows of desks doing calculations by hand?
(Fortunately, the article was a little more informative.)
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Am I the only one wondering why they don't use what they already have? They have spent untold billions on the shuttle program and they know it works. Why not take the existing shuttle plans and work on a on a new version using new technology? You already know where the major issues are from launch to landing so see if new tech can help eliminate them. You'd have to be able to reduce the weight of the thing at the very least - just by using new computer systems and using composite materials. I'm all for taking a fresh approach to things because I think that's where you get novel ideas, I also think you can take the same approach in a more limited fashion with ideas that have been proven to work. Why cram astronauts into a small pod when they could cruise aboard the shuttle? Imagine how much stuff they could take with them on just one mission. While I think a heavy lift rocket system is useful and needed for support purposes I think abandoning shuttle technology for manned missions is a step in the wrong direction.
Where is the Edison of the new age? Where is the Tesla of the 21st century?
Edison and Tesla of the 21st century are tied up in the patent office trying to prove their concepts and in court rooms trying to win litigation battles with patent trolls.
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fucking angry frustrated partisan shill
Mr Coward, kindly allow me to introduce you to Mr Freud.
Better hope they've got slide rules in the desk drawer (I do).. you can't buy new ones any more, nobody makes them. When the power fails, and you need to calculate by candle light, the slide rule keeps on going, and it's a lot lighter weight than the CRC math table book, and easier than Napier's bones.
Has just been handed to the Russians last week:
http://rescommunis.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/nasa-extends-contract-with-russia-for-iss-transportation/
Is it somehow different from a software tricycle or a software bikini wax?
"Software program" is redundant and the sign of a journalist with his head up his ass.
I piss off bigots.
They should just sub-contact to thoes people already building the newest spaceplane system.