In the Dutch paper "Volkskrant"...
Also, a Shuttle flight costs $500 million. You can run his institute on that for a hundred years.
The American taxpayer feels that NASA knows
what they are doing and will gladly spend 500
million $ on a Shuttle flight. When the Dutch
people feel the same way about his institute,
they'll let him know.
I wonder....when is the rest of the world going
to thank the US for all of the technological
improvements that have made their lives better
over the last 100 years? A great deal of them
subsidized by US tax $ if not directly developed
under US government direction.
Criticism belongs to the people spending the money and voting. If you don't do either, we welcome suggestions and new ways of doing things but ignore your criticism.
You said:
In 1989 I was working on grassroots legislation to reform NASA's launch services policies. This led to the passage of P. L. 101-611, The Launch Services Purchase Act of 1990 [google.com]which required NASA to procure launch services from private vendors whenever possible.
You're admitting to this?!?
You must be be asking for a beating. Either that or confessing your sins.
The biggest problem in our corrupt government
is that our agencies are forced to farm out
to the lowest bidder instead of building the
parts that they need themselves for one tenth
the price.
If Government agencies were allowed to run
their own factories for essential military
and space exploration equipment we wouldn't
have half of the failures that we do from
shoddy equipment in our military. _AND_ it
would cost less (in the long run).
But I guess greasing the palms of politicians
and getting your buddy or your district a
lucrative government contract at the expense
of space exploration and US tax dollars is
worth it.
I couldn't understand at first why the Columbia crash was such a tragedy when so many people are
suffering all over the world.
But if you look at the lives of any one of the
astronauts you'll see that every day of their
lives they worked hard to be the best that they
could be. They reached for the stars and sacrificed
the comforts of earth to help all mankind in our
pursuit of a higher goal. They knew the high risks
of space travel and went anyway...to help all of
us. I don't mourn their loss, but appreciate their
lives for how they lived them. Each of them was a hero.
Wherever you have people you'll have
conflict and corruption and evil. The space
program gives us some hope of getting away
from all of that. Colonizing new places and
having new beginnings where just maybe the
world won't turn out the way the Earth has.
It'll be a cold day in Hell before we solve
ALL of mankind's problems. Giving people
hope and a sense of wonder may just help
that cause more than throwing money at all
our other problems.
They failed 6 times before succeeding in stringing
the first telegraph line under the Atlantic Ocean.
They barely had steam engines running and they
were already linking Europe to American across
an OCEAN. THat is the power of human innovation
and drive.
Now everytime we lay down wire across the
Atlantic it can hold more bandwidth than all of
the other wire previously put down.
I have never really heard a good explanation, why we need the ISS and Shuttle, and how exactly are they supposed to help us achieve bigger goals like spreading life elsewhere in the Universe or making spaceflight commercially viable.
I'll take a wack at this.
The ISS will allow the space based construction of
larger space craft. One of the biggest problems for long range exploration is the cost of sending
up large crafts. If instead we can blast small crafts up to the space station with components and build the "Enterprise" in space, it will cost much less.
The Shuttle and its Human payloads are a means for us to learn about the dangers and physical consequences of space on us. Not to mention, that
the shuttle is necessary to supply the ISS with
the supplies it needs to expand and preform research.
Both the Shuttle and ISS have been used for space based research. It used to be the case that the
standards of measurement were based on earth. These were imprecise due to gravity and other constraints. Thanks to research in space (where there is no gravity) certain new measuring standards are being used in scientific study on earth.
The two together work as baby steps on our quest
to tame the wilds of space, something that we're
approaching responsibly.
I wonder if the poster has ever tried to read a book out loud.
Its a lot faster to transcribe a book from ocr pages than it is to read a book out loud into a machine.
I also type fast than I speak.
Just my thoughts.
they'll just change the laws in 13 years
on
Copyright Rumblings
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· Score: 3, Insightful
That solution is bad because
just like what happened recently with
the copyright laws. Some corporation
(Disney) will buy themselves some judges
and have the time limit changed to infinity.
The only real solution is to stop price fixing
by the recording labels and dvd resellers.
In a truly capitalist system 15$ for a CD would
NEVER have been allowed for each and every cd.
To do this we need Campaign Finance Reform in
America, I don't know who to blame in the rest
of the world but in America the people have lost
their voice.
The Dune Series is excellent, just finished the Butlerian Jihad.
Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series is supposed to be good. I don't know what book he's on now.
The Doomsday Book was an excellent read.
Harry Potter readers love him.
If you're thinking about "branching out"
Philosophy:
Plato's Republic, Zen and the Art of Motorcyle maintenance, We, The Fountainhead, Thus Spake Zarathustra
Classics:
Shakespeare. Learn those references that are
common to all human literature. He'll give
you a greater appeal in social settings because
most people have heard a few of his famous lines
which are everywhere.
Good luck.
Thats the way any development cycle works.
If they had _TESTED_ it correctly and built
in contingencies then there would be no
doubt that the system would work. If you
build a product, get it thoroughly tested.
If it breaks down. You failed. Fix it,
test it twice as much as the first time
and replace all faulty products.
I wonder why No one thinks this loss shouldn't be higher given that most of us are disgusted by the recent practices of the Recording Industry. Maybe the Customer is telling them something.
"China is a country built on war and "struggle"." Please Read "Guns, Germs, and Steel" and tell me that ANY Western nation isn't built on the same things.
"They know nothing but the thirst for power." --Definition of a US politician.
"communists are motivated by greed..." Open Source is motivated by greed?
"Imagine the Chinese controling the most stable satellite in earths orbit." one tiny moonbase that can't support itself, is hardly controlling the moon.
"they could sneak materials to build a nuke under the guise of building a power plant." Paranoia? More reason to give more money to the Failed STAR WARS project! I'm writing my congressman now.
"If anyone puts a station on the moon it must be an international effort." Sorry to say, but the UN hasn't been a very capable Governing Body. The space station was a great start but the men in power throughout the world got to where they are through competition not cooperation. Its not in their nature.
I'm interested in seeing what the effects of the EU experiment will be. It seems that Europeans are already losing their liberal nature and becoming more conservative.
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>"Does that mean Republican corporatists have been belching out billions of tons of CO2 for the last 15,000 years?"
Yes it does. And the squirrels are sick and tired of it. Poor horny bastards
In the Dutch paper "Volkskrant"...
Also, a Shuttle flight costs $500 million. You can run his institute on that for a hundred years.
The American taxpayer feels that NASA knows what they are doing and will gladly spend 500 million $ on a Shuttle flight. When the Dutch people feel the same way about his institute, they'll let him know. I wonder....when is the rest of the world going to thank the US for all of the technological improvements that have made their lives better over the last 100 years? A great deal of them subsidized by US tax $ if not directly developed under US government direction. Criticism belongs to the people spending the money and voting. If you don't do either, we welcome suggestions and new ways of doing things but ignore your criticism.
You said:
In 1989 I was working on grassroots legislation to reform NASA's launch services policies. This led to the passage of P. L. 101-611, The Launch Services Purchase Act of 1990 [google.com]which required NASA to procure launch services from private vendors whenever possible.
You're admitting to this?!?
You must be be asking for a beating. Either that or confessing your sins.
The biggest problem in our corrupt government is that our agencies are forced to farm out to the lowest bidder instead of building the parts that they need themselves for one tenth the price.
If Government agencies were allowed to run their own factories for essential military and space exploration equipment we wouldn't have half of the failures that we do from shoddy equipment in our military. _AND_ it would cost less (in the long run).
But I guess greasing the palms of politicians and getting your buddy or your district a lucrative government contract at the expense of space exploration and US tax dollars is worth it.
I couldn't understand at first why the Columbia crash was such a tragedy when so many people are suffering all over the world.
But if you look at the lives of any one of the astronauts you'll see that every day of their lives they worked hard to be the best that they could be. They reached for the stars and sacrificed the comforts of earth to help all mankind in our pursuit of a higher goal. They knew the high risks of space travel and went anyway...to help all of us. I don't mourn their loss, but appreciate their lives for how they lived them. Each of them was a hero.
Wherever you have people you'll have conflict and corruption and evil. The space program gives us some hope of getting away from all of that. Colonizing new places and having new beginnings where just maybe the world won't turn out the way the Earth has.
It'll be a cold day in Hell before we solve ALL of mankind's problems. Giving people hope and a sense of wonder may just help that cause more than throwing money at all our other problems.
My prediction is that it will happen.
They failed 6 times before succeeding in stringing the first telegraph line under the Atlantic Ocean.
They barely had steam engines running and they were already linking Europe to American across an OCEAN. THat is the power of human innovation and drive.
Now everytime we lay down wire across the Atlantic it can hold more bandwidth than all of the other wire previously put down.
I have never really heard a good explanation, why we need the ISS and Shuttle, and how exactly are they supposed to help us achieve bigger goals like spreading life elsewhere in the Universe or making spaceflight commercially viable.
I'll take a wack at this.
The ISS will allow the space based construction of larger space craft. One of the biggest problems for long range exploration is the cost of sending up large crafts. If instead we can blast small crafts up to the space station with components and build the "Enterprise" in space, it will cost much less.
The Shuttle and its Human payloads are a means for us to learn about the dangers and physical consequences of space on us. Not to mention, that the shuttle is necessary to supply the ISS with the supplies it needs to expand and preform research.
Both the Shuttle and ISS have been used for space based research. It used to be the case that the standards of measurement were based on earth. These were imprecise due to gravity and other constraints. Thanks to research in space (where there is no gravity) certain new measuring standards are being used in scientific study on earth.
The two together work as baby steps on our quest to tame the wilds of space, something that we're approaching responsibly.
hmmmm. I wonder if anyone knows ju ju.
yes very very bad ju ju
Yes. Very bad ju ju indeed.
If everyone on slashdot were to go sell plutonium on ebay....
Me make a mistake? Never!
It must be a slashdot bug.
Can one of the moderators notify the developers.
I wonder if the poster has ever tried to read a book out loud.
Its a lot faster to transcribe a book from ocr pages than it is to read a book out loud into a machine.
I also type fast than I speak.
Just my thoughts.
That solution is bad because
just like what happened recently with
the copyright laws. Some corporation
(Disney) will buy themselves some judges
and have the time limit changed to infinity.
The only real solution is to stop price fixing
by the recording labels and dvd resellers.
In a truly capitalist system 15$ for a CD would
NEVER have been allowed for each and every cd.
To do this we need Campaign Finance Reform in
America, I don't know who to blame in the rest
of the world but in America the people have lost
their voice.
humanity weeps...
....from happiness
You officially win the Darwin Award for the day.
The Dune Series is excellent, just finished the Butlerian Jihad. Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series is supposed to be good. I don't know what book he's on now. The Doomsday Book was an excellent read. Harry Potter readers love him. If you're thinking about "branching out" Philosophy: Plato's Republic, Zen and the Art of Motorcyle maintenance, We, The Fountainhead, Thus Spake Zarathustra Classics: Shakespeare. Learn those references that are common to all human literature. He'll give you a greater appeal in social settings because most people have heard a few of his famous lines which are everywhere. Good luck.
No.
Thats the way any development cycle works. If they had _TESTED_ it correctly and built in contingencies then there would be no doubt that the system would work. If you build a product, get it thoroughly tested. If it breaks down. You failed. Fix it, test it twice as much as the first time and replace all faulty products.
I wonder why No one thinks this loss shouldn't be higher given that most of us are disgusted by the recent practices of the Recording Industry. Maybe the Customer is telling them something.
"China is a country built on war and "struggle"."
Please Read "Guns, Germs, and Steel" and tell
me that ANY Western nation isn't built on the
same things.
"They know nothing but the thirst for power."
--Definition of a US politician.
"communists are motivated by greed..."
Open Source is motivated by greed?
"Imagine the Chinese controling the most stable satellite in earths orbit."
one tiny moonbase that can't support itself,
is hardly controlling the moon.
"they could sneak materials to build a nuke under the guise of building a power plant."
Paranoia? More reason to give more money to
the Failed STAR WARS project! I'm writing my
congressman now.
"If anyone puts a station on the moon it must be an international effort."
Sorry to say, but the UN hasn't been a very
capable Governing Body. The space station was
a great start but the men in power throughout the
world got to where they are through competition
not cooperation. Its not in their nature.
I'm interested in seeing what the effects of the
EU experiment will be. It seems that Europeans
are already losing their liberal nature and
becoming more conservative.