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"Frickin' Fantastic" Launch of NASA's Ares I-X Rocket
coondoggie writes "With a hiss and roar, NASA's Ares I-X rocket blasted into the atmosphere this morning at about 11:33 am EST, taking with it a variety of test equipment and sensors but also high hopes for the future of the US space agency. The short test flight — about 2 minutes — will provide NASA an early opportunity to look at hardware, models, facilities and ground operations associated with the mostly new Ares I launch vehicle. The mission went off without a hitch — 'frickin' fantastic' was how one NASA executive classified it on NASA TV — as the upper stage simulator and first stage separated at approximately 130,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean. The unpowered simulator splashed down in the ocean."
"The unpowered simulator splashed down in the ocean.""
And threw "water spray" all over Iran.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
Where does the money COME FROM? Especially in a burgeoning depression? A government that produces surpluses, though it does so on the backs of the people, at least can justify some absurd pork and waste. On the other hand, a government that has an over ONE TRILLION DOLLAR BUDGET DEFICIT cannot afford to shoot giant phalluses into space. Period. You are out of fucking money. Clean up your own house first, that is my point.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Only a total mathematically impaired moron would call the NASA budget "endless resources".
Try fixing the schools first.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Did Bolden even bother to be on hand for this?
It's flight hardware now. Can't call it a 'boondoggle' or whatever media-speak they had been using. That much more poisonous a pill to swallow when they kill it.
Also, the 'thrust oscillation' theory is on it's last leg. The 5 segment ATK ground test showed no threatening oscillation. This launch won't either. Won't stop any of you from prattling on about it, however.
Lurking at the bottom of the gravity well, getting old
I want everyone on Slashdot to send me the entire contents of their bank account. In return, I solemnly swear I will spend almost all of it on trying to create a handheld device capable of diagnosing cancer. It would clearly be of great benefit to the human race. What? What's that? But it's for science! Are you against progress, you knuckle-dragging Cro-Magnon barbarian? How could you be against it if it's for science!?
It's just welfare for people who drink expensive bourbon.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
It was all staged, the shadows are not right and the flag is waving.
I wonder how the natives of Haiti would have felt about such a proposition? As if Europe was the center of the universe? As if no one could make progress except for Europe?
Science is an investment, and you make investments in hopes that they will be profitable in the future. However, you cannot make an investment if you do not have any money. If I invested $10,000,000 in Lockheed today, maybe I'd have $20,000,000 twenty years from now. The big hole in this argument is I don't have $10,000,000! I wish I was the government, and you all looked to me for technology and progress. Then I could spend as much money as I wanted and never be held accountable to any budget! And if anyone criticized me, I'd just mock them for standing in the way of progress.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
I am having trouble understanding Spain as some kind of good guy. They committed genocide, wiped out dozens of peoples, cultures, languages, stole an outrageous fortune from the people who had worked to bring it out of the Earth, and set the stage for the ethnic cleansing of two continents.
So you think I should invest $10,000,000 in Lockheed right? But since I'm not the government, it's not okay for me to print money in my basement and then transfer it to a few preferential firms under the banner of science!
Oh, if I were the government, I'd have you all locked up for lesse-majiste.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Not if you listen to the NRA. They are perfectly safe to have and use around the home and children provided they are used correctly.
Undetectable Steganography? Yep, there's an app fo
The space program is chicken feed compared to the military. A year's NASA budget wouldn't fund the stupid and unnecessary Iraq war for a day.
Or how about we just legalize drugs and dismantle the DEA and the ATF? I think they get more funding than NASA. Plus we'd have fewer Federal inmates, and we could regulate and tax the drugs. That alone would allow us to double NASA's budget.
Free Martian Whores!