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Senate Clears NASA to Buy Russian Spaceships
Space.com ^ | 21 September 2005 | Brian Berger

Posted on 09/22/2005 8:56:22 AM PDT by Dan Evans

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To: A. Pole

You'll get a kick out of this one.


101 posted on 09/24/2005 5:24:25 AM PDT by raybbr
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To: RusIvan

Right, Ivan. I believe you.


102 posted on 09/25/2005 7:36:27 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: Realism

"Soon we'll be outsourcing the government?"

Hopefully. And then we can cancel the contract! :)


103 posted on 09/25/2005 7:43:29 PM PDT by KamperKen
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

Right, Ivan. I believe you.==

I'm sorry if I sound too harsh.

I just try to emphisize difference between weapon prolifiration and civilian nuclier cooperation.
Some people wnat that there won't be no neither first nor second. SO they delibarately confuse others by mixing first and second together.
I agree that first is forbidden and unlawful but second is allowed under surveilance and then lawful.


104 posted on 09/26/2005 3:17:26 AM PDT by RusIvan
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To: Dan Evans; ValenB4; anonymoussierra; zagor-te-nej; Freelance Warrior; kedr; Sober 4 Today; ...

Yes, ladies and gents, we are still a "super-power", sure we are. We can't even run our own national space shuttles and almost couldn't bring one back.


105 posted on 09/26/2005 10:31:34 AM PDT by jb6 (The Atheist/Pagan mind, a quandary wrapped in egoism and served with a side order of self importance)
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To: Dan Evans

I agree with you on the first part but on the second, they've had 5 military exercises with us this year and next year we are having a military exercise with them outside of Moscow. We, by the way, also have military liasons with China and are trying to sinch a port deal in Saigon...er Hochiman City.


106 posted on 09/26/2005 10:39:07 AM PDT by jb6 (The Atheist/Pagan mind, a quandary wrapped in egoism and served with a side order of self importance)
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To: Dallas59
It all sounds like one of Steven Baxter's books coming true.

"Voyage" or "Titan"

http://www.cix.co.uk/~sjbradshaw/baxterium/bax_biblio.html

107 posted on 09/26/2005 10:59:23 AM PDT by K. Smirnov (Do not let the sands of time get into your lunch)
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To: Rebelbase

But we still make really, really cool space movies.


108 posted on 09/26/2005 11:00:38 AM PDT by jb6 (The Atheist/Pagan mind, a quandary wrapped in egoism and served with a side order of self importance)
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To: Kevin OMalley
This time it is rocket scientists losing their jobs.

Worst case is they'll move overseas and work for the Russians. Already know of some US IT engineers/developers moving to China and India and Russia to work there. It's called brain drain. We did it to Europe for 50 years, now we're doing it to ourselves.

109 posted on 09/26/2005 11:05:13 AM PDT by jb6 (The Atheist/Pagan mind, a quandary wrapped in egoism and served with a side order of self importance)
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To: Realism

Couldn't be fast enough. If we outsource our Government, we could cut the budget in 1/2.


110 posted on 09/26/2005 11:14:36 AM PDT by DownInFlames
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To: jb6
I don't know what these "military exercises" are but I hope they aren't on the scale of the China-Russian exercises.

In any case, Russia has has been supplying China with major weapon systems. They are helping them build a blue-water navy and now China is starting to bother their neighbors. We should not be pretending we are buddy-buddy with the Russians and the very last thing we should be doing is nurturing the Russian aerospace industry for crying out loud.
111 posted on 09/26/2005 8:00:59 PM PDT by Dan Evans
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To: Dan Evans

True, Russia has sold them a blue water navy (still two decades behind ours) while rearming itself, S.Korea, India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Khazakstan for a ground war with China and offerring subs to Taiwan. Further, they had exercises with us, Britian, Japan and S.Korea near the Yellow Sea last year. They have no choice but to play nice with the 1,000 lb dragon while the bear and every other critter in the neighborhood sharpens its claws.


112 posted on 09/27/2005 9:32:13 AM PDT by jb6 (The Atheist/Pagan mind, a quandary wrapped in egoism and served with a side order of self importance)
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