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Weldon: Democrat Leadership Raids NASA Budget
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| January 31, 2007
| Rep. Dave Weldon
Posted on 02/01/2007 9:45:45 AM PST by Fitzcarraldo
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To: napscoordinator
You are a fool if that is what you believe. Try typing into Google "Nasa Inventions"
Here I'll list 2 for you:
Cat Scan
Kidney Dialysis
And those are just from the Apollo missions!
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posted on
02/01/2007 10:11:23 AM PST
by
ASH71
To: napscoordinator
I find this the biggest waste of money the United States has ever spent. When China holds the High Guard, will you feel vindicated?
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posted on
02/01/2007 10:12:04 AM PST
by
Centurion2000
(If you're not being shot at, it's not a high stress job.)
To: RightWhale
"Watch China swarm outer space, watch on your Chinese satellite feed."
So the future is going to be similar to the future as portrayed in the Sci-fi series "Firefly". Better brush up on yer Chinese people! Lay Ho Ma!
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posted on
02/01/2007 10:12:16 AM PST
by
Gum Shoe
To: ASH71
Perhaps but there will then come a time were we might have to leave this planet, and i for one hope we have some trained people to get us moving. As well as populations on the moon. 1 asteroid can ruin our whole day.If you're seriously worried about an asteroid strike, maybe we should consider funding asteroid detection projects (currently underfunded) for 1/100th the cost of a manned mission. The cost of coming up with a way to deflect or destroy an incoming asteroid would still be a minuscule fraction of the cost of sending some clown to Mars, let alone actually putting a permanent population on the moon.
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posted on
02/01/2007 10:13:43 AM PST
by
Alter Kaker
("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
To: Alter Kaker
Sure would be nice but i would rather have watch stations on the moon where the glow from Earth would not affect it. Being able to do something about it though would be nice with out Nasa... Destroying one is worse because then it becomes a shotgun blast. Deflecting it is what it is all about and gee whiz, NASA is working on that right now.
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posted on
02/01/2007 10:16:38 AM PST
by
ASH71
To: Centurion2000
China "holding the high ground" seems to now mean creating wide-ranging debris clouds to destroy satellites. Their manned program is purely for propaganda, IMO.
To: Fitzcarraldo
If we are to pursue "Space Manifest Destiny" goals (space colonization, etc.) basic technology will have to advance a few more steps to enable space resource processing at cost-effective levels.Manned space travel at the current time makes no sense scientifically, politically, economically or for any other purpose that I can divine. 20 years from now, that may no longer be the case. But at the current time, the cost is prohibitive and the benefits are nil.
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posted on
02/01/2007 10:18:00 AM PST
by
Alter Kaker
("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
To: Fitzcarraldo
The von Braun paradigm of space exploration is about to collapse under its own weight, IMO.
Many years ago, I went to a lecture with one of the scientists who came over from Germany with von Braun.
He said the United States does not, and has never had a space program. What the United States has, is a space race.
To: RightWhale
Dave Weldon has been telling the truth about how the RATs have emasculated the Space and Military budgets in the past, so I am not surprised that he is currently blowing the whistle on the antics of the left. While Weldon is courageously sounding the alarm, the Congressman's home paper, the Florida Today, is doing it's best to bury the story, and hide the unpleasant facts from Spacecoast voters. You wouldn't believe the half-truths, whole-untruths, omissions, and out-of-context quotes that this paper has engaged in, in an effort to deny the real facts from its readers. The dishonest mullet wrapper the Florida Today, is to the left and the RATs in this country, what Pravda once was to the bolsheviks. Leftist propaganda dressed up as the news is the order of the day.
Weldon has done a great job in the past, but this slanted publication has made his job very difficult.
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posted on
02/01/2007 10:19:40 AM PST
by
AdvisorB
To: ASH71
Your a fool for paying taxes on a losing endeavor. How many people have been up in space????
To: Centurion2000
They can own space. We will rule down here.
To: Alter Kaker
Manned space travel at the current time makes no sense scientifically, politically, economically or for any other purpose that I can divine.
To: ASH71
The asteroid tracking programs (LINEAR, NEAT, etc.) are all small and under-funded. Again, if you're seriously worried about the thread of a collision, you should think about tackling that problem before you start planning to evacuate 6 billion people to Mars.
As for space-based observation, I think orbit makes a heck of a lot more sense than a telescope on the moon. Do you know how insanely complicated it would be to land a large lens on the moon intact?
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posted on
02/01/2007 10:22:43 AM PST
by
Alter Kaker
("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
To: af_vet_rr
Landing a man on the moon will do what, exactly, to China?
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posted on
02/01/2007 10:23:22 AM PST
by
Alter Kaker
("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
To: napscoordinator
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posted on
02/01/2007 10:24:20 AM PST
by
ASH71
To: napscoordinator
They can throw cheap rocks from the moon. Target your home, your town, your state with rocks with cheap thrusters.
Start your chinese lesson now.
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posted on
02/01/2007 10:25:09 AM PST
by
listenhillary
(You can lead a man to reason, but you can't make him think)
To: Fitzcarraldo
Wha . . . . !!??
I'm so . . . . . shocked.
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posted on
02/01/2007 10:26:01 AM PST
by
DustyMoment
(FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
To: Alter Kaker
As i stated to you but perhaps you just ignored it, I would rather have the searchers in space. The more we leave the better we will be at it. So when the Sh!t hits the fan we can do something and not detroy it as you suggested. Who would send anyone to Mars let alond 6 Bil people. Because you see there is no life support on Mars and under your plans never would be would there?
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posted on
02/01/2007 10:26:32 AM PST
by
ASH71
To: ASH71
More we learn not leave hehe
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posted on
02/01/2007 10:27:16 AM PST
by
ASH71
To: RightWhale
If a Dem sits in the White House in 2009 the Moon, Mars and Beyond program won't be a consideration since it will be gone. Congress will be concerned with NEO since that is where the military interests will be for a long time to come.Dems . . . . and military interests!!?? Are you sure about that? The Dems have no military interests.
But, getting Martian votes to keep them in power - THAT has potential!!
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posted on
02/01/2007 10:29:09 AM PST
by
DustyMoment
(FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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