NASA is stalling. They don't want to fund this mission; the 15 million in the 2015 budget is just to keep the critics happy; they will never fork over the 2b needed for the mission. They would rather keep the billions in Pork going toward politically powerful interests out of Houston for manned missions.
Exactly. Why has NASA been dragging their feet? They have been studying this mission for 10 years at least without funding it.
The reason is simple: NASA is run by ex-astronauts and pilots who prefer manned missions to unmanned even though there is almost no scientific return from manned missions. The other reason is good old Houston politics and money; there are billions of dollars at stake in keeping the manned mission pork flowing for pointless projects such as the Rocket to Nowhere (the SLS); the unmanned missions (Science Directorate) our of Pasadena has no political pull.
Ten women for every man and they woman..."I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature. "
They totally get the bird calls wrong; they have no concept of birdsong that is local to the actual location. The classic eagle scream that you hear all the time is a red-tailed hawk. The Australian Kookaburra is heard in all the jungle movies. The ugly, urban House Sparror is dubbed onto rural scenes to make them seem natural.
One of few movies to get it right was Ann of Green Gables.
You are wrong. Almost all the Russian hardware, from the isotope separators to the reactors to the bomb were exact copies, bolt for bolt of the American versions. There was a lot of spying for the Ruskies, not just Fuchs, but it was Fuchs who gave Stalin the most important part, the neutron trigger. Russian was not considered an enemy at the time (the real enemy being Germany first and then Japan) and many on the project (in the press and the Left) were hopelessly naive about just how bad Stalin was. Some (i.e. people who never lived under Soviet rule such as Ivy League professors) are still naive about Stalin and the Soviet State.
Without Fuchs and the rest, it would have taken Stalin and Beria decades. Look at their genetics or psychology "research". Torture and coercion do no lead to effective scientific research.
Yup, and many people died slow, horrible deaths due to Philby such as the Estonian freedom fighters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
But it was Klaus Fucks who gave the most dangerous & paranoid man in the world, Joe Stalin, the ultimate weapon which lead the enslavement of Eastern Europe. I can e argued that Stalin would have done the same without the bomb, but it might have slowed him down. Fucks was delusional about Stalin.
The most damaging spy of WWII might go to Klaus Fuchs who gave the A-Bomb secrets to Stalin:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K...
"Hans Bethe once said that Klaus Fuchs was the only physicist he knew who truly changed history"
However this did not effect the outcome of WWII, but it arguably caused the Cold War.
You mean the next time I hop in horse and buggy and head into town for a gander at the library?
Collary: No matter how high taxes are, the taxing government will be broke.
Why is bringing in my tax revenue good? Like my wife, the State and Feds have an infinite capacity to overspend. No matter what their revenue is, they will be broke. The huge windfall as a result of the the Tobacco settlement is proof of this as is the Stimulus Package. The state of MA got over 4 billion in the Stimulus Package and it is gone with no jobs to show for it.
He was good at bringing home the pork such as the nuke sub base in GA; one of the worst places on the coast for such a base because of the shallow water around it.
flying out of NASA/JPL. Examples are the Curiosity & Opportunity rovers on Mars, Cassini at Saturn, New Horizons approaching Pluto and Dawn approaching Ceres. These are real science mission instead of the pork-with-wings needed to launch meat sacks up to low earth orbit in ISS.
It was the Grail mission to study gravity anomalies. It was a successful and cheap and scientifically meaningful mission, unlike the proposed manned pork-laden mission.
This is just pork-grabbing move to pull in more money for the Rocket To Nowhere (Space Launch System or SLS) and continue to rob the Science Directorate of funds it needs for real science missions such as the Europa mission or Mars Sample Return.
Going back to the moon is just a stunt to continue pointless manned missions.
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The plumes make it possible to directly sample the water under the ice and look for organics; a very, very tempting prospect.
NASA is stalling. They don't want to fund this mission; the 15 million in the 2015 budget is just to keep the critics happy; they will never fork over the 2b needed for the mission. They would rather keep the billions in Pork going toward politically powerful interests out of Houston for manned missions.
Exactly. Why has NASA been dragging their feet? They have been studying this mission for 10 years at least without funding it. The reason is simple: NASA is run by ex-astronauts and pilots who prefer manned missions to unmanned even though there is almost no scientific return from manned missions. The other reason is good old Houston politics and money; there are billions of dollars at stake in keeping the manned mission pork flowing for pointless projects such as the Rocket to Nowhere (the SLS); the unmanned missions (Science Directorate) our of Pasadena has no political pull.
Capital Gains or some such tax. That will stop this crap....
Just don't bring the mosquitoes. Or the Toy Poodles
Ten women for every man and they woman ..."I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature. "
We will be sure to follow. Tip 'o hat to Hitchhikers Guide
Richard Rhodes covered this in detail in his building the bomb book
They totally get the bird calls wrong; they have no concept of birdsong that is local to the actual location. The classic eagle scream that you hear all the time is a red-tailed hawk. The Australian Kookaburra is heard in all the jungle movies. The ugly, urban House Sparror is dubbed onto rural scenes to make them seem natural. One of few movies to get it right was Ann of Green Gables.
You are wrong. Almost all the Russian hardware, from the isotope separators to the reactors to the bomb were exact copies, bolt for bolt of the American versions. There was a lot of spying for the Ruskies, not just Fuchs, but it was Fuchs who gave Stalin the most important part, the neutron trigger. Russian was not considered an enemy at the time (the real enemy being Germany first and then Japan) and many on the project (in the press and the Left) were hopelessly naive about just how bad Stalin was. Some (i.e. people who never lived under Soviet rule such as Ivy League professors) are still naive about Stalin and the Soviet State. Without Fuchs and the rest, it would have taken Stalin and Beria decades. Look at their genetics or psychology "research". Torture and coercion do no lead to effective scientific research.
Files opened after the Soviet collapse showed that the Rosenbergs were guilty, but Fuchs did much worse. Fuchs should have been executed.
Yup, and many people died slow, horrible deaths due to Philby such as the Estonian freedom fighters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F... But it was Klaus Fucks who gave the most dangerous & paranoid man in the world, Joe Stalin, the ultimate weapon which lead the enslavement of Eastern Europe. I can e argued that Stalin would have done the same without the bomb, but it might have slowed him down. Fucks was delusional about Stalin.
And had nothing to do with Stalin, probably the greatest butcher of all time?
The most damaging spy of WWII might go to Klaus Fuchs who gave the A-Bomb secrets to Stalin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K... "Hans Bethe once said that Klaus Fuchs was the only physicist he knew who truly changed history" However this did not effect the outcome of WWII, but it arguably caused the Cold War.
Corporate greed is what is behind this; nothing more.
That will slow down the trading and encourage long-term investment....
Right, sure. If my skull had just been replaced, I a sure I would be doing just fine. This is right out of RoboCop...
You mean the next time I hop in horse and buggy and head into town for a gander at the library? Collary: No matter how high taxes are, the taxing government will be broke.
Why is bringing in my tax revenue good? Like my wife, the State and Feds have an infinite capacity to overspend. No matter what their revenue is, they will be broke. The huge windfall as a result of the the Tobacco settlement is proof of this as is the Stimulus Package. The state of MA got over 4 billion in the Stimulus Package and it is gone with no jobs to show for it.
He was good at bringing home the pork such as the nuke sub base in GA; one of the worst places on the coast for such a base because of the shallow water around it.
flying out of NASA/JPL. Examples are the Curiosity & Opportunity rovers on Mars, Cassini at Saturn, New Horizons approaching Pluto and Dawn approaching Ceres. These are real science mission instead of the pork-with-wings needed to launch meat sacks up to low earth orbit in ISS.
I assume...
It was the Grail mission to study gravity anomalies. It was a successful and cheap and scientifically meaningful mission, unlike the proposed manned pork-laden mission.
This is just pork-grabbing move to pull in more money for the Rocket To Nowhere (Space Launch System or SLS) and continue to rob the Science Directorate of funds it needs for real science missions such as the Europa mission or Mars Sample Return. Going back to the moon is just a stunt to continue pointless manned missions.
The time is long overdue to unionize IT worker and protect us from this crap...