They need to make this thing chug and hiss like some old coal fired boiler.
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Steven Weinberg is an intellectual titan. Unfortunately, that really doesn't make him more qualified than anyone else to judge the merits of manned space flight. Space exploration isn't about validating theories on "unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles". I find it ludicrous that anyone would try to argue the merits of manned space flight solely in terms of economics and scientific data points. It's about frontiers and going beyond them. It's what we do.
On another note, my favorite line in the article is this:
"Most of the huge bills for these manned missions would come due after the President leaves office in 2005 or 2009, and the extra costs before then could be covered in part by cutting other things that no one in the White House is interested in anyway, like research on black holes and cosmology."
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They need to make this thing chug and hiss like some old coal fired boiler.
"Sounds like Bob is back from Cincinnati."
Steven Weinberg is an intellectual titan. Unfortunately, that really doesn't make him more qualified than anyone else to judge the merits of manned space flight. Space exploration isn't about validating theories on "unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles". I find it ludicrous that anyone would try to argue the merits of manned space flight solely in terms of economics and scientific data points. It's about frontiers and going beyond them. It's what we do.
On another note, my favorite line in the article is this:
"Most of the huge bills for these manned missions would come due after the President leaves office in 2005 or 2009, and the extra costs before then could be covered in part by cutting other things that no one in the White House is interested in anyway, like research on black holes and cosmology."
Spoken like a true theoretical physicist.
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http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/pre