I should have called that one ... Shoot the Moon ... go baby go ... roll
those dice !
:)
db
db wrote:
Yeh ... and the US announced something er other about wanting to shut
the Space Station down in 2015 ... a mere years after completion so we
can pay for manned missions going back to the moon or to Mars or just
wandering around out in space.
Why would that be?
Anybody notice a striking commonality between developing brand new
manned space missions / military hardware, starting new wars, and
keeping our current insurance companies in charge of our national health?
Could it possibly be cost-plus unregulated pricing and profits in a
time when most all other American business is sucking wind / getting
clobbered by the foreign competition?.
I know it just HAS to be a coincidence!
Maintaining and improving existing systems and competing for market
share ... how droll, boring and penny pinching. And worse yet
everybody else knows something about it and looks over your shoulder
or worse yet is in your face or already got there before we did.
No money for reality when we're broke. BUT a good fantasy or
something totally inexplicably fantastic... THAT we might borrow some
more money for....
The Chinese will be glad to put it on our tab right?
Or maybe we can walk on air and right on up there to the moon while we
are at it!
Why pay attention to laws of gravity when laws of economics obviously
don't affect us??
Pardon my sarcasm.....
db
Jeff Miles wrote:
It's becoming one busy place.
I've thought about what my great grandkids would think about our
arguments over manned space flight. Do you think they'd be looking at
us like we look at those who argued man wasn't meant to fly?
Time seems to go by so fast. I was reminded of this when they
brought that pilot back who was shot down in the gulf war. Was it
really 19 years ago? Where did those 19 years go? Oh, Kodak quit
making film and I'm now complaining about the cost of a terabyte
external drive. 19 years ago I had a smuggled out from Micron a 1
megabyte wafer of chips about the size of a CD hanging from my car
mirror. Now it's a joke.
I miss the days of tubing down the river with a beer in one hand,
straw grass in my mouth and getting burnt to a crisp.
Jeff Miles
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On Sep 11, 2009, at 3:19 PM, Eric S. Sande wrote:
Here's another example: the space station, where not much science
is getting done by the three-person crew.
Up to six now. There are currently two Soyuz spacecraft on station
at a given time, since May 29, 2009. To be precise, TMA-14 and
TMA-15 are docked at the Pirs nadir port and the Zarya nadir port
respectively, and Progress 34P is docked at the Zvezda aft port.
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