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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 14873046 United States04/22/2012 08:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Exploration of Space is too important an endeavor to leave in the hands of non-Whites.. It's all well and good, I suppose, to brown up the lower strata of society with all that integration shit, but damn it, let's be real -- we need the very best on some issues in life and this is one of them. The colored folks can tag along later on, don't worry. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 3115472 United States04/22/2012 08:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Exploration of Space is too important an endeavor to leave in the hands of non-Whites.. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 14873046 It's all well and good, I suppose, to brown up the lower strata of society with all that integration shit, but damn it, let's be real -- we need the very best on some issues in life and this is one of them. The colored folks can tag along later on, don't worry.  |
| Vladimir Pootin User ID: 14875649  Russia04/22/2012 09:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Exploration of Space is too important an endeavor to leave in the hands of non-Whites.. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 14873046 It's all well and good, I suppose, to brown up the lower strata of society with all that integration shit, but damn it, let's be real -- we need the very best on some issues in life and this is one of them. The colored folks can tag along later on, don't worry. Many white geek folks have well-paid jobs, let's assume we have 3000000 white geeks with average salary about $150000, if they all will donate 80% of their year income to NASA it will make $360000000000, enough to send some piece of tin to Jupiter! Per aspergers ad astra, so to say. |
| GeekOfTheWeek User ID: 5033503 United States04/22/2012 09:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Bush announced the end of the space shuttle program back in 2004. The republicans want this to be privatized so their buddies can make a killing Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1431957 What an idiot. We're already getting there. Guess what? It's actually a lot cheaper than what NASA could come up with. Yep, Burt Rutan and Paul Allen did the whole suborbital for just under 20 million. Now SpaceX is on the way to being the New "apollo" era crap. WOW, they added 2 seats... Same tech, new frills. I'll put my money on Burt Rutan. [link to www.scaled.com] I love physics. It bonds us eternally, it's what makes our computers work, it's what's in my morning cup of coffee, it's the thing that keeps the universe from vanishing due to lack of belief... |
| Muzzle User ID: 14860086 United States04/22/2012 09:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Exploration of Space is too important an endeavor to leave in the hands of non-Whites.. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 14873046 It's all well and good, I suppose, to brown up the lower strata of society with all that integration shit, but damn it, let's be real -- we need the very best on some issues in life and this is one of them. The colored folks can tag along later on, don't worry. Many white geek folks have well-paid jobs, let's assume we have 3000000 white geeks with average salary about $150000, if they all will donate 80% of their year income to NASA it will make $360000000000, enough to send some piece of tin to Jupiter! Per aspergers ad astra, so to say. It could cost a tiny fraction of that if done in the private sector with the possibility of good profit existing. Of course, private sector anything is now screwed by regulation, taxes, and "buddy capitalism"(also known as fascism) in the USA. Get ready for more Hope&Change and more rope & chains. Last Edited by MuzzleBreak on 04/22/2012 09:57 PM In his book, "Between Two Ages," Brzezinski wrote: "The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values." MuzzleBreak |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 695310  Singapore04/22/2012 10:16 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Exploration of Space is too important an endeavor to leave in the hands of non-Whites.. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 14873046 It's all well and good, I suppose, to brown up the lower strata of society with all that integration shit, but damn it, let's be real -- we need the very best on some issues in life and this is one of them. The colored folks can tag along later on, don't worry. Umm... Russians are white. |
| Sungaze_At_Dawn User ID: 1458670 Canada04/22/2012 10:20 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Russia is white and mixed as well. But doesnt the US have a black president and a significant black population too! I mean what is up with stereotyping? The Devil tries to convince everyone he doesn't exist. The state tries to convince everyone they cannot resist. Do not go quietly into the good night. Rage Rage against the dying light! |
| Oldcrow64 "There's shadows in life, babe" User ID: 13106014 United States04/22/2012 10:37 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Bush announced the end of the space shuttle program back in 2004. The republicans want this to be privatized so their buddies can make a killing Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1431957 95% of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs were performed by the private sector. Greetings from Camp Bader-Ginsberg. Weather is fine, wish you were here. Up the Voltage! |
| TheBiss User ID: 1501937 United States04/22/2012 10:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What does a colony on Mars do for us? Nothing. "Oh look! We have a colony on Mars." What does a moon base do for us? "Oh look! We have a colony on the moon." Nothing... Space exploration is a bust; a waste of time and resources. [link to www.grainmill.coop] - Bulk foods, long term storage solutions [link to www.CatawbaCoops.com] - Unique A-Frame chicken coop plans |
| Halcyon Dayz, FCD User ID: 11757475  Netherlands04/22/2012 10:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | An actual self-supporting colony on Mars, or elsewhere, would give the human race the ability to survive even something as bad as the destruction of Earth. Quite worthwhile I'd say.  Reaching for the sky makes you taller. Hi! My name is Halcyon Dayz and I'm addicted to morans. |
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| Project_Deimos User ID: 999284 United States04/22/2012 11:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Why do we need to be tinkering around in space doing BS experiments in low orbit, when we can't even seem to get our acts together as inhabitants of Earth? Quoting: TheBiss What does a colony on Mars do for us? Nothing. "Oh look! We have a colony on Mars." What does a moon base do for us? "Oh look! We have a colony on the moon." Nothing... Space exploration is a bust; a waste of time and resources.  Good thing Columbus didn't think this way, or the Indians, or the Pilgrims. Humans have always migrated when their technology afforded an effective means of travel. You're welcome to stay on earth and try to "save" people from their tribal, primitive mistakes, but I'd rather be exploring the stars. Last Edited by Project_Deimos on 04/22/2012 11:07 PM "There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know." |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 14885329 Australia04/22/2012 11:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Exploration of Space is too important an endeavor to leave in the hands of non-Whites.. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 14873046 It's all well and good, I suppose, to brown up the lower strata of society with all that integration shit, but damn it, let's be real -- we need the very best on some issues in life and this is one of them. The colored folks can tag along later on, don't worry. Many white geek folks have well-paid jobs, let's assume we have 3000000 white geeks with average salary about $150000, if they all will donate 80% of their year income to NASA it will make $360000000000, enough to send some piece of tin to Jupiter! Per aspergers ad astra, so to say. ^lol |
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| Halcyon Dayz, FCD User ID: 11757475 Netherlands04/22/2012 11:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | An actual self-supporting colony on Mars, or elsewhere, would give the human race the ability to survive even something as bad as the destruction of Earth. Quoting: Halcyon Dayz, FCD Quite worthwhile I'd say. Cough, If stupid humans destroy the earth. They'll destroy other planets as well. Cough I was thinking more about geophysical and astronomical cataclysms. Sooner or later this planet will become uninhabitable. We shouldn't keep all our eggs in one basket. Reaching for the sky makes you taller. Hi! My name is Halcyon Dayz and I'm addicted to morans. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 14215256 United States04/23/2012 12:00 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | NASA retired the shuttle program last month with Discovery’s final space flight, and as P.J. O’Rourke recently wrote, the state of the U.S. program is unclear: Quoting: Anonymous Coward 5350828 But the U.S. space program is short of machinery, muddled about goals, and low in morale. The space shuttle has been retired. Thousands of NASA employees and contractors lost their jobs. We have no way to get a man into space except by asking Vladimir Putin, “Mother Russia, May I?” [link to freebeacon.com] Meanwhile, 45 years ago today: [link to en.wikipedia.org] Soyuz 1 was a manned spaceflight of the Soviet space program. Launched into orbit on April 23, 1967 carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov, Soyuz 1 was the first flight of the Soyuz spacecraft. The mission plan was complex, involving a rendezvous with Soyuz 2, swapping crew members before returning to Earth. Soyuz 1 was plagued with technical issues, and Komarov was killed when the spacecraft crashed during its return to Earth. This was the first confirmed in-flight fatality in the history of spaceflight. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 6833060 United States04/23/2012 01:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Russia is white and mixed as well. But doesnt the US have a black president and a significant black population too! I mean what is up with stereotyping? Quoting: Sungaze_At_Dawn Black what? Australia has a lot of Kangaroos. There is a concern in Higher Circles that the deliberate lowering of standards in the name of political correctness so prevalent in American society today could have disasterous consequences if allowed to spread into certain fields of research and developemnt etc. Too much is at stake to permitt misguided compassion to extend beyond tokenistic gestures....at this time, anyway. |
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