While I won't bite on your insults to my faith, I will be a little more obvious in stating my position this time. The documents written by the founding fathers are not infallible. Do you believe we should elevate the position of our forefathers to the status of flawless deities?
I am in favor of upholding the principles our nation was founded on, but there are times to recognize that there are better ways to carry out those principles. Historical and meaningful? Absolutely. Infallible? I should think not.
It isn't so much about progress as it is about reclaiming capabilities that we let slip away. The US did have a heavy lifter outside of the shuttle, since we had let the know-how from lifters like the Saturn V slip away. Now we will have a heavy lifting launch vehicle that doesn't require a manned mission.
While the Fisher space pen did require a large sum of money to develop, NASA had nothing to do with the development. In fact, NASA also used pencils before the space pen was available.
This is just like the story of one of the very first modal imapact hammers. A modal impact hammer is used for vibration testing. It contains a force transducer in the head of the hammer so you can measure the excitation force applied to the structure you are hitting with it. Anyway, it one of these efforts to trim the fat on government spending (ie. $10,000 toilet seat type stuff), they were attacking the use of a $5,000 hammer. It turned out to be a $5 hammer and a $4,995 force transducer! So try getting the facts straight before you go spouting off so you don't end up with egg on your face like those guys.
Also, the Fisher space pen did not have a pump. It contains an ink that when at rest is too thick to squeeze around the roller ball of the pen. However, when the ball is in motion the shearing force applied to the ink allows the ink to flow and the user to write.
Currently the Hubble robotics mission is going forward.
Bear in mind that the costs of the mission will provide more that simply a repair for Hubble. It will be a big step toward using robots to preform other tasks in space and on other planets.
"I just hope the Hubble Space Telescope doesn't become a moneypit like the shuttles or an excuse to keep the shuttles in service."
Part of the Hubble robotics mission is leaving a deorbit module on Hubble so it can be disposed of once it degrades beyond use. Hence, the shuttle program will not be used for Hubble anymore.
I'm sorry did you just suggest the US take a lesson from Spain on how to deal with terrorist? I thought thats what I heard, but surely I must have been mistaken.
Yes NASA awarded some money to the project, but it say that they are "funding" the research is a bit of a stretch. $75,000 over 6 months isn't exactly going to go very far. If you are talking about have a top level scientist on the job, thats the whole budget.
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While I won't bite on your insults to my faith, I will be a little more obvious in stating my position this time. The documents written by the founding fathers are not infallible. Do you believe we should elevate the position of our forefathers to the status of flawless deities?
I am in favor of upholding the principles our nation was founded on, but there are times to recognize that there are better ways to carry out those principles. Historical and meaningful? Absolutely. Infallible? I should think not.
The Bill of Rights is part of the foundation of the US, but its not as if it was brought down from Mt. Sinai on stone tablets.
It isn't so much about progress as it is about reclaiming capabilities that we let slip away. The US did have a heavy lifter outside of the shuttle, since we had let the know-how from lifters like the Saturn V slip away. Now we will have a heavy lifting launch vehicle that doesn't require a manned mission.
While the Fisher space pen did require a large sum of money to develop, NASA had nothing to do with the development. In fact, NASA also used pencils before the space pen was available.
This is just like the story of one of the very first modal imapact hammers. A modal impact hammer is used for vibration testing. It contains a force transducer in the head of the hammer so you can measure the excitation force applied to the structure you are hitting with it. Anyway, it one of these efforts to trim the fat on government spending (ie. $10,000 toilet seat type stuff), they were attacking the use of a $5,000 hammer. It turned out to be a $5 hammer and a $4,995 force transducer! So try getting the facts straight before you go spouting off so you don't end up with egg on your face like those guys.
Also, the Fisher space pen did not have a pump. It contains an ink that when at rest is too thick to squeeze around the roller ball of the pen. However, when the ball is in motion the shearing force applied to the ink allows the ink to flow and the user to write.
Currently the Hubble robotics mission is going forward.
Bear in mind that the costs of the mission will provide more that simply a repair for Hubble. It will be a big step toward using robots to preform other tasks in space and on other planets.
Scramjet anyone?
"I just hope the Hubble Space Telescope doesn't become a moneypit like the shuttles or an excuse to keep the shuttles in service."
Part of the Hubble robotics mission is leaving a deorbit module on Hubble so it can be disposed of once it degrades beyond use. Hence, the shuttle program will not be used for Hubble anymore.
I'm sorry did you just suggest the US take a lesson from Spain on how to deal with terrorist? I thought thats what I heard, but surely I must have been mistaken.
Yes NASA awarded some money to the project, but it say that they are "funding" the research is a bit of a stretch. $75,000 over 6 months isn't exactly going to go very far. If you are talking about have a top level scientist on the job, thats the whole budget.