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Bush increases funding for NASA!
Posted: 2003-01-19 01:46am
by Shinova
Posted: 2003-01-19 01:49am
by IRG CommandoJoe
Yay.
Posted: 2003-01-19 01:50am
by Alyrium Denryle
The first good thing he has done in his administration yet
Posted: 2003-01-19 01:51am
by Dalton
Probably just wants to look for oil on Mars.
Posted: 2003-01-19 01:54am
by Ghost Rider
LOL...still amazed he put any funding to something I'm sure he has no idea what the acronym means.
Posted: 2003-01-19 01:56am
by Raxmei
Now we can finally retaliate against whoever's been shooting our probes down.
Nuke Mars!
Re: Bush increases funding for NASA!
Posted: 2003-01-19 02:07am
by GrandMasterTerwynn
Pshh, George is just trying to look good for his Daddy. George Sr. had the pipe dream of putting men on Mars by 2020 I think. And really, it's just another way for him to subvert the Nuclear Test Ban treaty and get SDI going. You can get people to Mars cheaply using ordinary chemical propellants. We could likely have gone to Mars already if it weren't for political foot-dragging.
Yes nuclear propulsion would be more efficient for space travel in the long-run, but I'm not sure I'd trust Dubya to help develop it.
Posted: 2003-01-19 02:11am
by IRG CommandoJoe
Don't you mean Dubya's money and not Dubya himself?
Posted: 2003-01-19 02:16am
by Knife
Blah, we should develope tech that benifits us (as in the world) and not worry about treaties that were made with countries that no longer exist.
IMHO.
Posted: 2003-01-19 02:19am
by Stormbringer
I've seen the stories and I'm skeptical. Most seem to be heavily based on rumor.
Posted: 2003-01-19 02:32am
by Enlightenment
Note NASA's claims the emphasis of the project will be on nuclear reactors rather than nuclear rockets. Think for a moment about how much power a directed energy weapon requires and how best to generate it in the absense of virtually all resources.
Also consider that it would be far cheaper to obtain heavy&stupid SDI building materials (i.e. structural components, KE warheads, etc) by mining the moon and NEAs rather than by launching dumb mass from the ground. Nuclear rockets will certainly open the door to the NEAs and heavy-lift access the moon.
This sounds like a cover for SDI more than anything else.
Posted: 2003-01-19 02:33am
by Knife
Enlightenment wrote:Note NASA's claims the emphasis of the project will be on nuclear reactors rather than nuclear rockets. Think for a moment about how much power a directed energy weapon requires and how best to generate it in the absense of virtually all resources.
Also consider that it would be far cheaper to obtain heavy&stupid SDI building materials (i.e. structural components, KE warheads, etc) by mining the moon and NEAs rather than by launching dumb mass from the ground. Nuclear rockets will certainly open the door to the NEAs and heavy-lift access the moon.
This sounds like a cover for SDI more than anything else.
Weapons research has alway expanded into other area's.
Posted: 2003-01-19 02:43am
by Sea Skimmer
Enlightenment wrote:Note NASA's claims the emphasis of the project will be on nuclear reactors rather than nuclear rockets. Think for a moment about how much power a directed energy weapon requires and how best to generate it in the absense of virtually all resources.
Also consider that it would be far cheaper to obtain heavy&stupid SDI building materials (i.e. structural components, KE warheads, etc) by mining the moon and NEAs rather than by launching dumb mass from the ground. Nuclear rockets will certainly open the door to the NEAs and heavy-lift access the moon.
This sounds like a cover for SDI more than anything else.
Name a technology, which is not dual use. Hint, there isn't one.
However the Guardian is a supermarket tabloid when it comes to reliability. I'd bet this is just one big load of crap.
Posted: 2003-01-19 05:29am
by Invader ZIm
Dalton wrote:Probably just wants to look for oil on Mars.
Imagine that: a productive reason to encourage space exploration. Why all we are missing now is Martians so we can steal their land and sell worthless beads to them.
Posted: 2003-01-19 12:25pm
by CmdrWilkens
Dalton wrote:Probably just wants to look for oil on Mars.
Wow going into new territory in search of resources. I mean mankind has never done that before.
Posted: 2003-01-19 12:35pm
by jaeger115
Now if only Bush could set a timetable for a manned mission to Mars like Kennedy did with the Moon, he'll really get my support!
Posted: 2003-01-19 12:58pm
by IRG CommandoJoe
And the promise of Martian cities would also get my full support...
(Imagines lots of futuristic cities with huge domes around them on Mars.)
Re: Bush increases funding for NASA!
Posted: 2003-01-19 01:02pm
by ArmorPierce
I don't believe it. Might be to help is SDI by getting Nasa involved over the long term.
Posted: 2003-01-19 01:03pm
by ArmorPierce
Nevermind, seems like people have already covered what I said.
Posted: 2003-01-19 01:23pm
by Dalton
CmdrWilkens wrote:Dalton wrote:Probably just wants to look for oil on Mars.
Wow going into new territory in search of resources. I mean mankind has never done that before.
I detect a hint of sarcasm in your reply, but I assure you that I made that post in all seriousness.
Posted: 2003-01-19 01:31pm
by kheegster
I'm pretty sceptical about this, but if it's true, then I might just be in place to get involved in it by the time it gets going...
Posted: 2003-01-19 01:34pm
by CmdrWilkens
Dalton wrote:CmdrWilkens wrote:Dalton wrote:Probably just wants to look for oil on Mars.
Wow going into new territory in search of resources. I mean mankind has never done that before.
I detect a hint of sarcasm in your reply, but I assure you that I made that post in all seriousness.
Yes the sarcasm was there because I was mocking your mocking. Humanity has always expanded into new realms in search of additional resorces and land in which to live. If Bush has the same motives then it merely confirms that he is human lets all stop pretending hes doing something evil here unless you want to condemn all the actions of all of humanity since we left the fertile crescent.
Posted: 2003-01-19 07:21pm
by paladin
IRG CommandoJoe wrote:And the promise of Martian cities would also get my full support...
(Imagines lots of futuristic cities with huge domes around them on Mars.)
Personnally, I would prefer labor camps for the Fundies on Mars!!
Posted: 2003-01-19 07:25pm
by drifter god
thank god, maybe there is hope for this president, at this rate, he wont be stoned out of office, maybe just tossed out.
Posted: 2003-01-19 07:36pm
by Soontir C'boath
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
All right!!! Finally......space age must come.....must.....MUST!
Cyaround,
Jason