Pick up the phone and call your local county voting authority, and ask them if they use diebold machines. If so, bring a hammer on voting day. You know what to do.
The scorched cloud layer was too electrically active for machines to pass through, the sentinels who were clinging to the Logos got cooked when they tried to go up, and the Logos itself had to be manually rebooted.
Assuming that we had been launching three Saturn V rockets every year since 1970, we could have put a space station into orbit that would boggle the mind. Skylab was boosted on a Saturn V, was a perfectly useful piece of hardware, and was allowed to burn up because of politics. Imagine having 80 skylabs linked together floating around up there. And before anyone else says it: a beowulf cluster of skylabs indeed.
Seriously though, the Shuttle and the ISS are a disaster. I love having people in space, and I actually believe we should keep sending people there just because its important not to lose our toehold. On the other hand, the way we're going about the space program, and manned space exploration in particular, is insane. We should fire every manager in NASA, hire a bunch of Russian engineers, and bring in a consulting team from Japan to run the thing. Now THAT would be a testament to American diversity (and would probably get something accomplished for once).
All this talk about building new technology to do things the Russians can do with spit and bailing wire just boggles the mind.
Hell, give the X-Prize guys 100 million dollars a pop and see what they come up with. I promise you one of them will come up with a cheap launch system to safely put people anywhere in LEO you want them.
And if the ISS can't stay in orbit without the shuttle... why not just launch a shuttle permanently into orbit and periodically refuel it from Progress cargo delivery rockets?
-Mike
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An M2P2 shield would provide propulsion and protection from radiation. Of course, thats too obvious for NASA to fund.
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Pick up the phone and call your local county voting authority, and ask them if they use diebold machines. If so, bring a hammer on voting day. You know what to do.
-Mike
The scorched cloud layer was too electrically active for machines to pass through, the sentinels who were clinging to the Logos got cooked when they tried to go up, and the Logos itself had to be manually rebooted.
-Mike
Assuming that we had been launching three Saturn V rockets every year since 1970, we could have put a space station into orbit that would boggle the mind. Skylab was boosted on a Saturn V, was a perfectly useful piece of hardware, and was allowed to burn up because of politics. Imagine having 80 skylabs linked together floating around up there. And before anyone else says it: a beowulf cluster of skylabs indeed. Seriously though, the Shuttle and the ISS are a disaster. I love having people in space, and I actually believe we should keep sending people there just because its important not to lose our toehold. On the other hand, the way we're going about the space program, and manned space exploration in particular, is insane. We should fire every manager in NASA, hire a bunch of Russian engineers, and bring in a consulting team from Japan to run the thing. Now THAT would be a testament to American diversity (and would probably get something accomplished for once). All this talk about building new technology to do things the Russians can do with spit and bailing wire just boggles the mind. Hell, give the X-Prize guys 100 million dollars a pop and see what they come up with. I promise you one of them will come up with a cheap launch system to safely put people anywhere in LEO you want them. And if the ISS can't stay in orbit without the shuttle... why not just launch a shuttle permanently into orbit and periodically refuel it from Progress cargo delivery rockets? -Mike