If Space Shuttle Discovery disintegrates upon reentry, is NASA's image eternally doomed?

[EKKC]

Originally posted by: ktehmok

Originally posted by: Deadtrees
Since when people started to think it's easy to go outer space and come back safe?
It's only been a few decades for human beings to go outer spacce out of many and many decades of human history. We are like a baby taking a few steps for the first time and that I wouldn't be suprised if something goes wrong and they all die.

I don't see anything wrong with them dying in their effort to conquer space. But they're spending too much of my god d@mn tax money to do it. If you're gonna crash & burn, do it a little fvcking cheaper...

dont complain about NASA. there's a dude in the oval office spendding way more each day on the so-called WAR ON TERROR when this terror is hitting in Western cities like NYC, Madrid, London.

No I'm not trying to turn this into a P/N topic, but you have to admit, the money spent by NASA cannot be blamed as a waste of tax dollars. A war should be.

 

[Koenigsegg]

Originally posted by: EKKC

Originally posted by: ktehmok

Originally posted by: Deadtrees
Since when people started to think it's easy to go outer space and come back safe?
It's only been a few decades for human beings to go outer spacce out of many and many decades of human history. We are like a baby taking a few steps for the first time and that I wouldn't be suprised if something goes wrong and they all die.

I don't see anything wrong with them dying in their effort to conquer space. But they're spending too much of my god d@mn tax money to do it. If you're gonna crash & burn, do it a little fvcking cheaper...

dont complain about NASA. there's a dude in the oval office spendding way more each day on the so-called WAR ON TERROR when this terror is hitting in Western cities like NYC, Madrid, London.

No I'm not trying to turn this into a P/N topic, but you have to admit, the money spent by NASA cannot be blamed as a waste of tax dollars. A war should be.

That's extremely faulty logic right there.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: malcontent
I sure hope nothing happens to this one, but if it does, it will be a very long time before anyone goes up again.

sad to say but true... i wish people would realize that flying into space isn't something that's easily accomplished. damn the media (and congressmen too) for destroying nasa:|

 

[Kenazo]

So, what's the point of the shuttle again? Why can't we just keep putting ppl up using Soyuz (sp?) and use rockets to put sattelites in space?

I'm all for space exploration and think it's great, but if it can be done better using different technology, what's the point?

 

[JEDI]

why not go back to using the Apollo capsules?

they worked with 1khz computers. imagine what can be done w/3ghz computers?

 

[xaeniac]

I know for show the shuttle's days are

 

[DainBramaged]

Originally posted by: NFS4
NASA = fuxored if this mission fails.

Pretty much what I was thinking.

 

[SSP]

Originally posted by: JEDI
why not go back to using the Apollo capsules?

they worked with 1khz computers. imagine what can be done w/3ghz computers?

What does a 3ghz computer has to do with getting to space?

 

[EGGO]

Originally posted by: Koenigsegg

Originally posted by: suse920

Originally posted by: Koenigsegg
Maybe they'll put their money into something useful now.

yeah like a war on Iraq. I much rather have them dump money into that. in fact i think we should scrap NASA and public schools to put the money into somthing useful, like the military.

Yes you're amazing because even in my very brief statement you were able to read my mind and realize that I what I meant was that I wanted to wipe out all funding for public schools and put it into a fund to wipe out all the babies in this world. How did you do it?

Thank you Mrs. Cleo.

Not to add fuel to the fire, but he never said that was your opinion.

 

[Hamiltonian]

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: Quasmo
If I got to see space from up there I wouldn't give a sh!t if I died.

I'd have a hard time coping with flying around in space looking at the earth from way up there, then 2 weeks later standing in the bathroom changing the diaper on a 6 month old whining kid while my wife is bitching about me leaving my socks on the floor..

 

[suse920]

Originally posted by: Koenigsegg

Originally posted by: suse920

Originally posted by: Koenigsegg
Maybe they'll put their money into something useful now.

yeah like a war on Iraq. I much rather have them dump money into that. in fact i think we should scrap NASA and public schools to put the money into somthing useful, like the military.

Yes you're amazing because even in my very brief statement you were able to read my mind and realize that I what I meant was that I wanted to wipe out all funding for public schools and put it into a fund to wipe out all the babies in this world. How did you do it?

Thank you Mrs. Cleo.

Taps sarcasm meter...

 

[Hamiltonian]

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: Quasmo
If I got to see space from up there I wouldn't give a sh!t if I died.

I'd have a hard time coping with flying around in space looking at the earth from way up there, then 2 weeks later standing in the bathroom changing the diaper on a 6 month old whining kid while my wife is bitching about me leaving my socks on the floor..

Now I dont care who you are, But that is just plain funnay, I hear your pain!!

 

[Staples]

After the Russians said they would stand by to rescue our asses? Of course.

 

[beer]

Originally posted by: SSP

Originally posted by: JEDI
why not go back to using the Apollo capsules?

they worked with 1khz computers. imagine what can be done w/3ghz computers?

What does a 3ghz computer has to do with getting to space?

Why do the most fault-tolerant systems use relay logic, even to this day?

What good is 3 GHz? The shuttle's computers do simple floating point math on a few numbers. The shuttle is a mechanical feat moreso than an electrical one (although to say that either is more critical than the other is false)

 

[Deadtrees]

Originally posted by: ktehmok

Originally posted by: Deadtrees
Since when people started to think it's easy to go outer space and come back safe?
It's only been a few decades for human beings to go outer spacce out of many and many decades of human history. We are like a baby taking a few steps for the first time and that I wouldn't be suprised if something goes wrong and they all die.

I don't see anything wrong with them dying in their effort to conquer space. But they're spending too much of my god d@mn tax money to do it. If you're gonna crash & burn, do it a little fvcking cheaper...

Going into the !huge! space in a small plane is considered "conquer"ing it?

 

[EyeMWing]

If that thing falls apart, I'm calling NASA and going "Give me a check for $90k and I'll give you a return to flight that DOESN'T suck."