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Obama is going to add 2 billion to NASA's funds

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Originally posted by: Throckmorton
Originally posted by: spidey07
He's promising so much money to so many people I'm not surprised at all.

And just where do you think this money will come from? That's right, you mr. richie riche - you over there making over 60K a year richie rich. It's going to come from you.
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O RLY?
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Not to mention McCain is actually promising at least a trillion dollars (yes, trillion, with a "t") more in debt with his tax plan than Obama (according to our government's own research groups).
 
Originally posted by: mcmilljb
Originally posted by: Bateluer
Heh, imagine if the money spent on Iraq was pumped into NASA . . .
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Now if that were the case, vacation on Mars!
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get your ass to mars 😛

i'm all for NASA ++. they keep having to cut corners because of budget problems 🙁
 
Originally posted by: jpeyton
Originally posted by: boomerang
I want to know who we're borrowing the money from before committing. I didn't vote in the poll.
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We're not borrowing it from anyone, silly goose.

We just run the printing presses at the treasury for an extra hour.

Then write a few IOUs, and call it a day.
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Doh! (Boomerang slaps himself on the forehead.) I should have know that.
 
Every cent that's being spent on killing people in other countries should be spent on science and exploration of space. I mean it.

Of course, the only reason the USA would ever think about spending money on space and sciences is if there's another race or "cold-war" BS. They only care about appearing supreme. I don't really give a shit about the USA, all I care about is advancing science and well-being for the entire world... And if the USA does that, cool, gravy. China can do it, Russia can do it, I don't care. It's all gravy.
 
I'm not going to vote Obama but DAMN all of you for going against NASA!

None of us would be on our computers screwing away time typing on this forum, if it wasn't for them.
 
The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home. In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty. And yet our species is young and curious and brave and shows much promise. In the last few millennia we have made the most astonishing and unexpected discoveries about the Cosmos and our place within it, explorations that are exhilarating to consider. They remind us that humans have evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is prerequisite to survival. I believe our future depends on how well we know this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky.
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--Carl Sagan


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Originally posted by: CorCentral
I'm not going to vote Obama but DAMN all of you for going against NASA!

None of us would be on our computers screwing away time typing on this forum, if it wasn't for them.
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how do you figure?
 
Originally posted by: datalink7
The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home. In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty. And yet our species is young and curious and brave and shows much promise. In the last few millennia we have made the most astonishing and unexpected discoveries about the Cosmos and our place within it, explorations that are exhilarating to consider. They remind us that humans have evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is prerequisite to survival. I believe our future depends on how well we know this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky.
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--Carl Sagan


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Hell yes.

Sagan
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Originally posted by: datalink7
The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home. In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty. And yet our species is young and curious and brave and shows much promise. In the last few millennia we have made the most astonishing and unexpected discoveries about the Cosmos and our place within it, explorations that are exhilarating to consider. They remind us that humans have evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is prerequisite to survival. I believe our future depends on how well we know this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky.
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--Carl Sagan


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Carl Sagan was also critical of NASA missions, noting that much of the experimentation could be done unmanned for a fraction of the cost. But overall he supported manned missions for their exploratory spirit.

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=...YYTVGs&feature=related
 
Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
Carl Sagan was also critical of NASA missions, noting that much of the experimentation could be done unmanned for a fraction of the cost. But overall he supported manned missions for their exploratory spirit.
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I love the idea of space exploration, and I work at a NASA base (for a contractor, not directly for the US government), but NASA seems huge and bloated compared to how it used to be. If all of NASA is run the same way that my installation is run... Well, let's just say that they just put a building in our parking lot and then built another parking lot on the other side of that building. Rumor is that the whole thing was an accident.
 
Originally posted by: Xanis
Originally posted by: CorCentral
I'm not going to vote Obama but DAMN all of you for going against NASA!

None of us would be on our computers screwing away time typing on this forum, if it wasn't for them.
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how do you figure?
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Why do you even question it? I thought we were all nerds here and not NUMBNUTS!
Space, the FINAL Frontier

IBM delivered the 19-inch long, 58 pound computer in May 1963. It was contoured to fit inside the wall of the capsule and contained a 159,744 bit array of core memory about the size of a small loaf of bread. Core memory, in which tiny donut-shaped magnets store binary bits by being magnetized in one direction or the other, was chosen for its reliability and ability to continue storing data in the event of a complete power loss.

The computer made its operational debut on March 23, 1965 with Gus Grissom and John Young on board. They were instructed to ignore the computer if it disagreed with prior test calculations, which it did, but mistakes in the test calculations resulted in a splashdown 60 miles off target. Had the computer been followed, splashdown would have been closer to target. This incident paralleled the experience with the election prediction by the Univac computer years earlier.

Without Nasa, the computer may have never have been........ Or at least as mainstream as it is.


Nasa had it and used it. Nasa Made mistakes and we learned from them.

Point told.




 
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
Carl Sagan was also critical of NASA missions, noting that much of the experimentation could be done unmanned for a fraction of the cost. But overall he supported manned missions for their exploratory spirit.
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I love the idea of space exploration, and I work at a NASA base (for a contractor, not directly for the US government), but NASA seems huge and bloated compared to how it used to be. If all of NASA is run the same way that my installation is run... Well, let's just say that they just put a building in our parking lot and then built another parking lot on the other side of that building. Rumor is that the whole thing was an accident.
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The biggest waste is in hiring contractors like you. They could spend a fraction and hire a government employee who gets paid the same.
 
2 billion more for NASA is not enough. It should be at least 5-10 billion more.
While he's at it, he really needs to look at Fermilab too.... They could use some money.

If this country were to spend more on science and research, we all could then reap the benefits. New inventions can also mean the return of a strong manufacturing base in the USA.
 
Maybe while exploring space we piss off some aliens and then they come back to attach us... all world unites to fight them.... isnt that a nice scenario !!! :beer:
 
Originally posted by: andy04
Maybe while exploring space we piss off some aliens and then they come back to attach us... all world unites to fight them.... isnt that a nice scenario !!! :beer:
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Zapp Brannigan: April thirteenth?point two. We have failed to uphold Brannigan's Law. However, I did make it with a hot alien babe. And in the end, is that not what man has dreamt of since first he looked up at the stars? [pause] Kif, I'm asking you a question!
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Originally posted by: Bateluer
Heh, imagine if the money spent on Iraq was pumped into NASA . . .
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I don't see how hiring scientists to stare at the sky generates any benefit to the US. To think spending $2 billion on NASA will generate anything is foolish.
 
Originally posted by: JS80
Originally posted by: Bateluer
Heh, imagine if the money spent on Iraq was pumped into NASA . . .
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I don't see how hiring scientists to stare at the sky generates any benefit to the US. To think spending $2 billion on NASA will generate anything is foolish.
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We can get oil from Mars
 
Originally posted by: Throckmorton
Originally posted by: spidey07
He's promising so much money to so many people I'm not surprised at all.

And just where do you think this money will come from? That's right, you mr. richie riche - you over there making over 60K a year richie rich. It's going to come from you.
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O RLY?
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Sweet, I benefit more from McCain's tax plan than Obama's. Thanks for posting that.
 
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