So with so many bad actors all stealing our cellphone data, how do they avoid stepping on each others toes? It must get crowded on our cellphones with all the malware competing for our data. Oink, oink
For our own protection of course. And that someday is coming soon.
How much longer can Richard Stallman and I hold out on owning one of these dream (Stalin's) -machines?
You could send an expedition to Antarctica for a tiny fraction of the cost to collect pieces of asteroids called meteorites! Ooops, we already do that. The mission is pointless and scientifically worthless. Good for jobs in the space industry so that does count for something.
There are few if any minerals except iron and various evaporates such as sulfur, salt, calcium, magnesium, etc. Try finding copper on mars; good luck with that or most of the other industrial metals. Maybe nickle from meteorites and possibly platinum from the same source.
The problem is that there was never any plate tectonics on Mars to concentrate minerals.
Pure pork that's all.
The money would be better spent on Mars, or Europa missions or even Enceladus or Titan.
The current NASA administration (and White House) have been a disaster for planetary science. They are not putting anything in the pipeline....
The landing of the "boring" remote control car (the Curiosity rover) was a huge international event with more publicity than the ISS has ever had in its whole lifetime. It must have ticked off Bolden and the rest of the manned-spaceflight lobby at NASA to no end.
You seem to forget that Star Trek was not a documentary; robots can do anything man can do and much better at a tenth or hundredth of the cost.
The only science that the ISS, Orion, SLS, and this asteroid stunt will accomplish is be research on humans in space. Snore....
The Gobi desert or the top of Mt. Everest or the Dry Valleys of Antarctica are, to paraphrase Sam Kinison, like Club Med compared to Mars. A human settlement on Mars would never be self-sustaining (no resources, limited energy, and no minerals) and could never flourish (the children would be weird stick figures that could never come back to Earth). On top of everything else would be the extremely unhealthy environment of dust, radiation, and low G.
All the exciting missions lately have been robotic such as the Curiosity (MSL) Mars Rover, Cassini, Voyager and next year the Pluto/Charon and Ceres missions. NASA management, all ex-astronauts and fighter jocks, hate this because they want to push their manned pork such as the SLS and Orion, but the public just does not care; there is no science or excitement there. This asteriod missions, which has no scientific value, is intended to get the public excited about manned missions.....snore...
This yet another lame attempt by the all-powerful manned-spaceflight lobby at NASA to supply pork to politically powerful districts such as Houston. The SLS has been called the Rocket to Nowhere and this is an attempt to justify it.
All this fooling around with an asteroid could be done for a fraction of the cost with robotic probes.
And there is little gain scientifically from this mission.
The NASA administrator Bolden, a big-time manned spaceflight guy, has said that there will be no more flagship planetary missions (such as major missions to Mars or Europa), but he is more than willing to fund this asteroid capture stunt. So he wants to sacrifice science for pork.
Next year NASA/JPL will have robotic probes reach Pluto/Charon and Ceres, but all the administrator can talk about is this stupid asteroid stunt.
How stupid do you think we are with this post? I cannot believe that the government goes to the trouble to astroturf Slashdot, but this post proves it.
This sensationalist crap is just an excuse to get some publicity. Climate change had nothing to do with the pigeon's demise. It operates too slowly and migratory birds are not that sensitive because they can move around to find food sources.
It was hunting, greed, and avarice. Nothing more.
Instead of running scientific missions such as the Curiosity rover, Europa Clipper, Mars Sample Return, Terrestrial Planet Finder...
This is NASA management being hopeless anti-science/pro-pork again.
There is almost no air pressure on Mars. You might enjoy the temperature for the minute or so until you body fluids start to boil. Then the experience would change.
The money raised will be wasted on pork barrel projects and patronage jobs. The government has an infinite capacity to spend all its income and then some, like my wife
Drop the goods into an ocean trench or any abyssal deep, with a timer that will inflate floatation devices and location beacon in x-number of decades. If the world cannot find an airliner, they are certainly not going to find a time capsule.
The asteroid capture mission is a stunt that management at NASA has dreamed up to justify their manned pork missions. The is almost no scientific value in this mission/stunt, just jobs and bucks for manned mission contractors
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So with so many bad actors all stealing our cellphone data, how do they avoid stepping on each others toes? It must get crowded on our cellphones with all the malware competing for our data. Oink, oink
Nope. Sorry. You have to PAY for the privilege of being spied on. It is the American way.
For our own protection of course. And that someday is coming soon. How much longer can Richard Stallman and I hold out on owning one of these dream (Stalin's) -machines?
That is the real reason they are moving, but no one wants to criticize the sacred cow of commercial fishing....
You could send an expedition to Antarctica for a tiny fraction of the cost to collect pieces of asteroids called meteorites! Ooops, we already do that. The mission is pointless and scientifically worthless. Good for jobs in the space industry so that does count for something.
There are few if any minerals except iron and various evaporates such as sulfur, salt, calcium, magnesium, etc. Try finding copper on mars; good luck with that or most of the other industrial metals. Maybe nickle from meteorites and possibly platinum from the same source. The problem is that there was never any plate tectonics on Mars to concentrate minerals.
Pure pork that's all. The money would be better spent on Mars, or Europa missions or even Enceladus or Titan. The current NASA administration (and White House) have been a disaster for planetary science. They are not putting anything in the pipeline....
The landing of the "boring" remote control car (the Curiosity rover) was a huge international event with more publicity than the ISS has ever had in its whole lifetime. It must have ticked off Bolden and the rest of the manned-spaceflight lobby at NASA to no end. You seem to forget that Star Trek was not a documentary; robots can do anything man can do and much better at a tenth or hundredth of the cost. The only science that the ISS, Orion, SLS, and this asteroid stunt will accomplish is be research on humans in space. Snore....
The Gobi desert or the top of Mt. Everest or the Dry Valleys of Antarctica are, to paraphrase Sam Kinison, like Club Med compared to Mars. A human settlement on Mars would never be self-sustaining (no resources, limited energy, and no minerals) and could never flourish (the children would be weird stick figures that could never come back to Earth). On top of everything else would be the extremely unhealthy environment of dust, radiation, and low G.
All the exciting missions lately have been robotic such as the Curiosity (MSL) Mars Rover, Cassini, Voyager and next year the Pluto/Charon and Ceres missions. NASA management, all ex-astronauts and fighter jocks, hate this because they want to push their manned pork such as the SLS and Orion, but the public just does not care; there is no science or excitement there. This asteriod missions, which has no scientific value, is intended to get the public excited about manned missions.....snore...
This yet another lame attempt by the all-powerful manned-spaceflight lobby at NASA to supply pork to politically powerful districts such as Houston. The SLS has been called the Rocket to Nowhere and this is an attempt to justify it. All this fooling around with an asteroid could be done for a fraction of the cost with robotic probes. And there is little gain scientifically from this mission. The NASA administrator Bolden, a big-time manned spaceflight guy, has said that there will be no more flagship planetary missions (such as major missions to Mars or Europa), but he is more than willing to fund this asteroid capture stunt. So he wants to sacrifice science for pork. Next year NASA/JPL will have robotic probes reach Pluto/Charon and Ceres, but all the administrator can talk about is this stupid asteroid stunt.
It will probably help as much as out-sourcing and H1B visa acceleration and illegal immigration....
Hahahaha
How stupid do you think we are with this post? I cannot believe that the government goes to the trouble to astroturf Slashdot, but this post proves it.
This sensationalist crap is just an excuse to get some publicity. Climate change had nothing to do with the pigeon's demise. It operates too slowly and migratory birds are not that sensitive because they can move around to find food sources. It was hunting, greed, and avarice. Nothing more.
Let's stay with Javascript...
Instead of running scientific missions such as the Curiosity rover, Europa Clipper, Mars Sample Return, Terrestrial Planet Finder... This is NASA management being hopeless anti-science/pro-pork again.
I know there are some erupting under the ice. Is this contributing?
There is almost no air pressure on Mars. You might enjoy the temperature for the minute or so until you body fluids start to boil. Then the experience would change.
There must have been a ton of the that going on, but I suppose it was only management doing it so that is OK
The NSA wants to know
The money raised will be wasted on pork barrel projects and patronage jobs. The government has an infinite capacity to spend all its income and then some, like my wife
Drop the goods into an ocean trench or any abyssal deep, with a timer that will inflate floatation devices and location beacon in x-number of decades. If the world cannot find an airliner, they are certainly not going to find a time capsule.
Such tariff are way overdue for a variety of reasons.
The asteroid capture mission is a stunt that management at NASA has dreamed up to justify their manned pork missions. The is almost no scientific value in this mission/stunt, just jobs and bucks for manned mission contractors