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Give Space a Chance, Says Phil Plait

Posted by timothy on from the to-not-bless-is-not-to-negate dept.

The Bad Astronomer writes "A lot of pundits, scientists, and people who should know better are decrying the demise of NASA, saying that the President's budget cutting the Constellation program and the Ares rockets will sound the death knell of manned space exploration. This simply is not true. The budget will call for a new rocket design, and a lot of money will go toward private space companies, who may be able to launch people into orbit years ahead of Ares being ready anyway."

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  1. Re:Bravo. by Idiomatick · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Every last red cent is spent here on earth."

    Getting out of a debate with some right wingers made that stand out for me, never use the word red when talking about funding. They'll be sure to think it is a communist plot to get to space.

  2. Re:Wishful thinking is bad science too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Here is the American attitude on space exploration:

    "Space is for homos! What are you, some sort of gay?! You fuckin' space fag! FOOTBALL FOOTBALL FOOTBALL BABY JESUS BABY JESUS GIMME MAH GUN!".

    I say this as a space-loving, exploration-loving, tax-paying American. We have given up on space, because we have embraced stupidity.

  3. Phil Plat, owns Space X stock? by tjstork · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is so obviously an Elon "I wrote a check to Barrack" Musk payback that it is beyond funny.

    Do you own Space X stock Phil? Or are you at least getting a free Tesla out of the deal?

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