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NASA Ends Plan To Put Man Back On Moon

Posted by timothy on from the tax-dollars-for-earthlings dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from The Times Online: "NASA has begun to wind down construction of the rockets and spacecraft that were to have taken astronauts back to the Moon — effectively dismantling the US human spaceflight programme despite a congressional ban on its doing so. Legislators have accused President Obama's administration of contriving to slip the termination of the Constellation programme through the back door to avoid a battle on Capitol Hill."

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  1. Look for the upside by jmorris42 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hey, look at the upside. Now when the usual suspects use the tired argument, "If we can put a man on the moon we can do X." just look at em and say "But we CAN'T put a man on the moon anymore. Our might forebearers could do that but we can't. Morons like you traded all that for a welfare state."

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    1. Re:Look for the upside by clarkkent09 · · Score: 0, Troll

      Not really. The money you put in is just another tax, the money you get out is just another welfare payout. How much you put in has very little relation to how much you get back: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCdgv7n9xCY

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    2. Re:Look for the upside by Runaway1956 · · Score: 0, Troll

      I know slashdot is a piss poor place to quote any Biblical people - but Jesus said the poor will always be with us.

      I don't give a small rat's ASS what kind of Utopia mankind might build in the future, here, or in space - there will ALWAYS be poor people. There will be those with no drive, who are to lazy to feed themselves. There will be those who are just to damned stupid to earn or to save a dollar. There will be those who are just plain unlucky, and everything they ever attempt to do will go to shit. There will be those who expect government to take care of them, so they settle for a shitty life at government's expense.

      If you taxed every working man, and every investor at 99%, and taxed all corporations at 99% of gross profits - you STILL wouldn't have enough money to feed and clothe and shelter the worthless to the standards that they demand.

      I'm not wealthy, and I could be dirt poor real easy if the economy takes another bad dive - but I still say, "Fuck the poor!" No matter how bad the economy might get, I'll feed myself, and my family. Those who can't or won't do the same can and should become statistics on one of Darwin's charts.

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    3. Re:Look for the upside by Runaway1956 · · Score: 0, Troll

      I'll help you. Electricity, and air conditioning, private shelters complete with running water and private baths, enough food that they can put 100 pounds or more of lard on their skanky asses, television, - I could go on.

      So long as there is a welfare system for people who are to lazy to work, the recipients will sponge up all the available resources. Which welfare system are you aware of, that has a surplus, or has turned down allocations from Congress or state governments, because the recipients just didn't spend all the money?

      And, there is no need to put my "the worthless" into quotations. There are plenty of people living on welfare who have never contributed ANYTHING to society - other than the next generation of welfare recipients.

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      "Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
    4. Re:Look for the upside by Beatles_Rock_Number9 · · Score: 0, Troll

      Social Security is very different from home insurance. You chose another example where "what you put in has nothing to do with what you get out" but compared an apple to an orange.

    5. Re:Look for the upside by tophermeyer · · Score: 0, Troll

      And the money I pay into home insurance has very little relation to how much I get back if my house catches fire. What's your point?

      You have the choice to not purchase insurance. You do not get to opt out of paying into Social Security.

    6. Re:Look for the upside by Runaway1956 · · Score: 0, Troll

      "the collective"

      See, that shit scares me. You're part of a hive mentality. You've been borged. You have implants, I'm sure, telling you what the Queen Liberal wants you to think. GAAAHHHHH!!!!

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    7. Re:Look for the upside by Runaway1956 · · Score: 0, Troll

      ROFLMAO Thanks, I needed that. Next, you'll be telling me that I'm unstable, and should seek psychiatric help. Typical liberal trash talk.

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      "Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
  2. Re:A little part of me dies here by JockTroll · · Score: 0, Troll

    Thank your own fabulous country for not having a manned space program, instead of dreaming to hitch a ride on someone else's spacecraft. That will teach you not to rely on others.

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  3. So whats the point of NASA then by rossdee · · Score: 0, Troll

    Might as well take the S out of NASA since they are no longer interested in Space. Then it becomes NAA, or maybe NAH (No Astronauts here)

    Hopefully congress can just close down NASA, and give the meager budjet to private space exploration. The bureaucrats at NASA can be sent to the gulf to clean up the oil spill.