There is no purpose to manned spaceflight. The scientific return comes from unmanned spaceflight. Manned spaceflights are stunts to keep the pork flowing to Congressionally powerful districts. There is nothing done by manned spaceflight that could not be done unmanned for one tenth or one hundredth the cost as an unmanned mission.
The problem is that NASA is run by ex-flyboys and astronauts. There is an internal battle between the manned spaceflight directorate and the science directorate (NASA/JPL). The former do maned pork and are always trying to steal funds away from the science guys. The manned fighter-jocks tried to kill planetary science many times, the last time was earlier this year. At one point they allocated more for a Space Toilet (30 mil) than they did for a Europa mission (15 mi).
NASA needs a shakeup and the science guys need equal control at the top.
My experience with Home Depot has been extremely low quality products. Your experience my differ, but I stopped shopping there long ago and now only shop at local, family-owned shops.
This seems like the manned spaceflight directorate (i.e the pork Directorate) whining about the science directorate (i.e. real science and exploration) because the planetary science guys are getting all the publicity and excitement while they cannot get anyone interested in their pork manned projects like the ISS, SLS, Orion, or their ludicrous asteroid capture missions.
The real excitement and discoveries are all the result of unmanned missions such as the Voyager, Cassini, New Horizons, MRO, etc. missions (and the fabulously successful rovers). Manned spaceflight is just pork for Congressionally-powerful districts with no scientific return. The SLS (called the Rocket to Nowhere), the Orion capsule, the old shuttles, and the ISS are/have burned billions and do nothing for science....and they endanger astronauts.
The problem is that NASA is run by ex-flyboys and the districts that build their toys want the pork to keep coming. Bolden is a shill for the manned space lobby--it is fairly disgraceful how he has tried to kill planetary science.
Isn't it designed to look for Methane in Mars' atmosphere? And didn't the MSL rover (Curiousity) determine that there is no detectable methane in the air, at least at Gale, right?
Definitely pork.
The real science is the unmanned missions out of JPL/CalTech while the pork is with the SLS, ISS and the ridiculous asteroid capture mission.
There are management problems at NASA (i.e. too oriented toward manned spaceflight), but not at JPL that built and runs the rover.
I just love you hindsight jocks with zero engineering knowledge of the project.
To all you idiots who think you could have done do a better job, read Emily's article. There were serious weight constraints for the wheels that effected everything from EDL to operations. Any huge engineering project is full of tradeoffs. Hindsight is 20/20.
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C++ has always been a steaming pile of hacks build on top of an insecure, unsafe language that was glorified assembler. No amount of new hacks on top of the old hacks will ever fix this software disaster. It created one software disaster after another such as Netscape 6.
Nope. Not even close. Trees are slow growing and decay back to CO2. Better to grow fast-growing crops like corn or grass and burn to form long-lasting charcoal.
Better yet, much better, move everyone to solar power.
Did you dive your car under a beer truck in the snow? Sue.
Was your flight cancelled because of the weather? Sue.
Did it rain on your picnic? Sue.
The possibilities are endless.
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There is no purpose to manned spaceflight. The scientific return comes from unmanned spaceflight. Manned spaceflights are stunts to keep the pork flowing to Congressionally powerful districts. There is nothing done by manned spaceflight that could not be done unmanned for one tenth or one hundredth the cost as an unmanned mission. The problem is that NASA is run by ex-flyboys and astronauts. There is an internal battle between the manned spaceflight directorate and the science directorate (NASA/JPL). The former do maned pork and are always trying to steal funds away from the science guys. The manned fighter-jocks tried to kill planetary science many times, the last time was earlier this year. At one point they allocated more for a Space Toilet (30 mil) than they did for a Europa mission (15 mi). NASA needs a shakeup and the science guys need equal control at the top.
And where does the electricity come from? Coal-fired power plants probably
My experience with Home Depot has been extremely low quality products. Your experience my differ, but I stopped shopping there long ago and now only shop at local, family-owned shops.
This seems like the manned spaceflight directorate (i.e the pork Directorate) whining about the science directorate (i.e. real science and exploration) because the planetary science guys are getting all the publicity and excitement while they cannot get anyone interested in their pork manned projects like the ISS, SLS, Orion, or their ludicrous asteroid capture missions.
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Who never goes over 65 on the highway? So all you offenders will get rate hikes....i.e. everyone
The real excitement and discoveries are all the result of unmanned missions such as the Voyager, Cassini, New Horizons, MRO, etc. missions (and the fabulously successful rovers). Manned spaceflight is just pork for Congressionally-powerful districts with no scientific return. The SLS (called the Rocket to Nowhere), the Orion capsule, the old shuttles, and the ISS are/have burned billions and do nothing for science....and they endanger astronauts. The problem is that NASA is run by ex-flyboys and the districts that build their toys want the pork to keep coming. Bolden is a shill for the manned space lobby--it is fairly disgraceful how he has tried to kill planetary science.
Even more motivation to defund SLS...
How about a stiff import tariff / carbon tax on all the junk imported from China?????
For your own safety, of course....
Isn't it designed to look for Methane in Mars' atmosphere? And didn't the MSL rover (Curiousity) determine that there is no detectable methane in the air, at least at Gale, right?
So DropBox, that's a way to differentiate yourself...hint hint...something that we all want...and will never get.
Actually the real scandal is not using the money for a Europa probe.
Not the manned pork in things like SLS and the ISS.
Definitely pork. The real science is the unmanned missions out of JPL/CalTech while the pork is with the SLS, ISS and the ridiculous asteroid capture mission.
The SLS was built to funnel money to well-connected districts, not for any mission needs....
There are management problems at NASA (i.e. too oriented toward manned spaceflight), but not at JPL that built and runs the rover. I just love you hindsight jocks with zero engineering knowledge of the project.
To all you idiots who think you could have done do a better job, read Emily's article. There were serious weight constraints for the wheels that effected everything from EDL to operations. Any huge engineering project is full of tradeoffs. Hindsight is 20/20.
Only someone with no brain would post that.
C++ has always been a steaming pile of hacks build on top of an insecure, unsafe language that was glorified assembler. No amount of new hacks on top of the old hacks will ever fix this software disaster. It created one software disaster after another such as Netscape 6.
So why are they unnamed? Makes me think it was China...
Nope. Not even close. Trees are slow growing and decay back to CO2. Better to grow fast-growing crops like corn or grass and burn to form long-lasting charcoal. Better yet, much better, move everyone to solar power.
Did you dive your car under a beer truck in the snow? Sue. Was your flight cancelled because of the weather? Sue. Did it rain on your picnic? Sue. The possibilities are endless.
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