Science seen as slipping in U.S.

Houston Chronicle ^ | August 22, 2004 | ERIC BERGER

[js1138]

I believe if you proposed building today's rocket launch capability from scratch, without the experience of the last sixty years, the engineering problems would look insurmountable.

[PatrickHenry]

Insurmountable placemarker.

[Junior]

Bravo Zulu.

[farmfriend]

I will take the time to "clean it up" and repost with both or all three parts combined.

I would love to see you post all the part together as a separate thread, or mulitple threads.

[PatrickHenry]

Don't give up your day job. Oh ... wait a minute! As an astronomer, you don't have a day job. Never mind then. Ignore this post.

[RadioAstronomer]

Don't give up your day job.

ROFL! :-)

Arrrg!! I got busy on another thread and did not get part two posted darnit!! Sigh. I will tonight though!

Here is the post I got tangled in! LOL

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1202086/posts?page=333#333

[RadioAstronomer]

Thanks :-)

[snopercod]

Very impressive! Sorry it took so long to respond, but I've been pretty busy lately building kitchen cabinets.

I'm still unconvinced that it is economical to mine the moon for basic elements available here on earth. Even if there were gold bricks scattered around on the surface, it would cost way too much to go to the moon and bring them back.

I still believe that for the forseeable future, the only money to be made in space is in the tourist industry.