Initial reaction: Nooo! Don't take those away, I want to ride them! (never quite outgrew 'I want to be an astronaut when I grow up!')
Replacing Ares I with the Saturn or Delta rocket doesn't seem unreasonable though, since they have similar payload capacities. I do wonder how a rocket gets "human-rated" though. Failure rate?
I wonder what one would find if you tested the effluent from cruise ships?
I know they're (theoretically) barred from dumping within X miles of shore and Y miles of sensitive benthic habitats (such as coral reefs and seagrass beds), and it's known that there's a fairly significant amount of prescription drucgs (birth control, etc) being released into the ocean by these ships.
But it would be interesting to see which cruise line parties the hardest, for instance. (I have never been on a cruise, let alone tried to bring drugs aboard...)
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Initial reaction: Nooo! Don't take those away, I want to ride them! (never quite outgrew 'I want to be an astronaut when I grow up!')
Replacing Ares I with the Saturn or Delta rocket doesn't seem unreasonable though, since they have similar payload capacities. I do wonder how a rocket gets "human-rated" though. Failure rate?
I wonder what one would find if you tested the effluent from cruise ships? I know they're (theoretically) barred from dumping within X miles of shore and Y miles of sensitive benthic habitats (such as coral reefs and seagrass beds), and it's known that there's a fairly significant amount of prescription drucgs (birth control, etc) being released into the ocean by these ships. But it would be interesting to see which cruise line parties the hardest, for instance. (I have never been on a cruise, let alone tried to bring drugs aboard...)