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Astronauts To Toss Jedi Lightsaber Into Space
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NikolaeVarius
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While I appreciate the symbolic value. That thing is like a little missile out there. If they just release it into orbit, it'll be up there for a while, and either burn up in reentry/ hit something a.k.a piloted space ship.
If they fire it out into space, it'll be preserved in time forever until it hits something/gets destroyed, and so be totally forgotten.
I think they should fire it at an intercept course with the Voyager probe.
If they fire it out into space, it'll be preserved in time forever until it hits something/gets destroyed, and so be totally forgotten.
I think they should fire it at an intercept course with the Voyager probe.
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clamum
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Yeah! Lets take a priceless collectors piece and instead of auctioning it for charity lets shoot it into space like a piece of garbage where it can join the tons of other garbage in the huge orbital pinball game in the sky!
IAteYourMother
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Originally posted by: LoKe
They're already going up there.
it costs alot of money even to send up a fraction of a pound into space.
I rather see my tax money going on to this stuff than have it being handled out to lazy ass people......
Originally posted by: IAteYourMother
Originally posted by: LoKe
They're already going up there.
it costs alot of money even to send up a fraction of a pound into space.
Lighten up bud. The government wastes trillions of dollars a year. This won't cost even a fraction of that. If it gets some nerds interested in NASA again then its money spent better than the majority of stuff they waste our money on.
Bateluer
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It will incinerate on reentry before too long. I'm guessing something that small won't even make it anywhere close to the surface. The concern would be if it hits some sort of important satellite. However, I'm sure the NASA planners thought of that and are releasing it where such an occurrence would be unlikely.
They tossed something out of the ISS a few weeks ago that was about the size of a refridgerator & that's supposed to burn up in re-entry sometime next year, so i doubt this will be a hazard.
Does seems rather pointless though.
Does seems rather pointless though.
DrPizza
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It's as good as any reason though. In fact, it's less wasteful than the rest of their mission, delivering another component to the international space station. What a tremendous waste of time, money, effort, and resources that is. There's no reason for manned space flight, other than "hey! Look at us!"
2nd.
Imagine how much booze you could buy bums here on Earth with that money! You could buy a crackhead enough crack to send him straight to the Moon.
I just got off the phone with George Lucas. He has a undisclosed agenda regarding the space race for private people.
JulesMaximus
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