Posted on 07/27/2011 12:43:34 PM PDT by Red Badger
Rubbing salt in the wound. The One made us abandon space travel because it “offends” Him. We can’t do anything to stop them.
Yes.
Can’t they just shoot it out into space? Was a waste of time and money anyway—should have been stomping around on Mars by now.
No. A complete waste of money.
Too bad they are going to junk it in the first place, but why don’t they just push the thing into outer space instead of polluting the planet with it?
Too bad they are going to junk it in the first place, but why don’t they just push the thing into outer space instead of polluting the planet with it?
What a complete crock. Stop whining. It’s not becoming.
They don't.
“Launched in 1998, the ISS...”
Very misleading. The first piece went up in 1998; but, I remember touring NASA in 2000, and touring mock-ups of all the stuff that had yet to be launched.
Wikipedia says it is ‘expected to be finished in 2012’.
So literally this thing will spend 8 years in space as a completed component.
Instead, we threw trillions of dollars for the 'war on poverty' (based on our debt, I think poverty won).
What I can’t figure is they’ve spent billions and billions of dollars to haul all that mass off of earth and into orbit. Why just drop it back into the ocean? Why not boost it up into some parking orbit, where it will be out of the way and then it will be there if for nothing else, then spare parts for some future space station. Of course that sound too much like common sense, and nobody ever accused the powers that be of having that
Doing what?
What is its purpose?
Does it even have a purpose?...............
It would be insanely expensive to rocket-up the thing and give it enough velocity to kick it out into “space”, and even then it’s going to come back at some time. It’s cheap as hell to fire simple rockets to reduce the orbital velocity and bring it down.
Nothing wrong with the Russian plan, considering the ISS will be obsolete by 2020 (barring other changes). Skylab and Mir were both-deorbited successfully.
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By then Bigelow Aerospace will have inflatable hotels orbiting the Earth lifted into place by the Falcon 9 rocket family care of SpaceX.
The reason you can’t boost it into earth-escaping flight/travel is a matter of pure economics. It would actually take A LOT (and we’re talking REALLY a lot) of fuel to boost its speed beyond the necessary amount to escape earth’s gravity.
On the other hand, it really only takes a small, calculated, well-timed nudge to bring it down in the South Pacific. It probably has the fuel on board as we speak to do that.
Well, thought it might be too much to send it out of orbit...shucks!
What does that mean?................
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