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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 09:00 PM Original message |
Poll question: Is having no manned launch vehicle like Space Shuttle like superpower wearing sweatpants? |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 09:01 PM Response to Original message |
1. Manned space flight is an absurd waste of resources. An anachronism. |
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Electric Monk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 09:03 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Unlike, say, waging multiple wars? |
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RC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 09:06 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. +1 |
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neverforget (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 09:09 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Agree 100% |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 09:10 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. +2 |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 09:42 PM Response to Reply #2 |
14. Those are the only two options? I can think of LOTS of things, in science even, to spend resources |
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Electric Monk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-16-11 01:20 AM Response to Reply #14 |
19. It was merely one example, not a binary choice. nt |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 09:11 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Tell that to your decendants a few centuries down the road when they |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 09:43 PM Response to Reply #6 |
15. If they can't live on Earth, why should a chosen few pollute space? |
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Gidney N Cloyd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 09:15 PM Response to Reply #1 |
8. Absurd? Fuck, yeah. But where would man be today if we never took a shot at the absurd? |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 09:21 PM Response to Reply #1 |
11. We spend more on snack foods than we do the space program. |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 09:25 PM Response to Reply #1 |
13. Space flight an anachronism? God that is really funny. |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 09:44 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. I specifically wrote MANNED space flight. |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-16-11 05:22 AM Response to Reply #1 |
22. An anachronism in what way? I would say space flight will aid in humanity's survival. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-16-11 03:09 PM Response to Reply #1 |
25. Carl Sagan would disagree with you. |
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11 Bravo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-16-11 03:10 PM Response to Reply #1 |
26. You were born into the wrong era. We could have used you to tell those dumb-ass Wright brothers ... |
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MisterP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 09:13 PM Response to Original message |
7. it's exactly like a superpower not having a crew launch system, nothing more, nothing less |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 09:21 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Indeed, Japan, Germany, the UK, France, hell all the EU. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 09:20 PM Response to Original message |
9. The Space Shuttle was the sweat pants in this analogy, the new line of vehicles will be... |
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Peregrine (712 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 09:49 PM Response to Reply #9 |
17. Space Shuttle killed manned exploration |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-16-11 01:17 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. now we've gone from low to zero |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-16-11 04:28 AM Response to Reply #17 |
21. The Space Shuttle was underutilized. It was to be a construction ship. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-16-11 03:15 PM Response to Reply #21 |
29. The deficit-hawk bean counters took over and forgot the shuttle's original purpose. |
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Electric Monk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-16-11 05:16 PM Response to Reply #29 |
35. Sure, if energy was free. Do you have a gravitic drive handy? |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-17-11 06:57 PM Response to Reply #35 |
43. Energy costs aren't what make rockets expensive. |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-16-11 05:11 PM Response to Reply #21 |
34. The shuttle was also supposed to bring back chemical and manufactured products |
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unkachuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 09:25 PM Response to Original message |
12. more evidence of our decline....n/t |
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Ichingcarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-16-11 01:27 AM Response to Original message |
20. The Repair of the Hubble wouldn't have been possible |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-16-11 03:01 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. think of the great leap forward Hubble has been in what we know about planets around |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-16-11 03:03 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. I have a feeling we could get an invite from some other planet, and Washington would |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-16-11 05:19 PM Response to Reply #20 |
36. We've launched a dozen Hubbles without the Shuttle |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-16-11 03:10 PM Response to Original message |
27. We should have been colonizing Mars by now! |
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WillyT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-16-11 03:12 PM Response to Original message |
28. Yep... And I'm Not Real Thrilled With The Privatization Of Space Either |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-16-11 03:18 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. I have no problem with the commercial development of space. |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-16-11 03:25 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. yep--it's not either/or |
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WillyT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-16-11 03:34 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Oh I Agree... It's Always Been A Blend, But... |
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Kind of Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-16-11 04:11 PM Response to Original message |
33. I disagree. It seems to me that NASA is |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-17-11 12:42 AM Response to Reply #33 |
37. when politicians plan something more than ten years in the future, that's their way of saying never |
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Kind of Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-17-11 01:25 AM Response to Reply #37 |
39. Serious question, for instance? |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-17-11 02:48 AM Response to Reply #39 |
40. Social Security trust fund for boomers? |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-17-11 02:52 AM Response to Reply #37 |
41. That's why flex path was chosen, it can't be so easily killed. |
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BOHICA12 (231 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-17-11 12:43 AM Response to Original message |
38. And eating Cheetos .... nt |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-17-11 01:11 PM Response to Reply #38 |
42. Republicans want to declare them a new food group |
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