Posted on 12/16/2013 4:22:19 PM PST by Nachum
We’ve got a Chinaman’s chance now in the space race!
How much are they going to charge us for the Apollo 11 relics?
Win-win. Us. Manned flight to Mars to build an Islamic pride mosque
“Slaves, lots of slaves doing the hard work will always beat out free men who want a decent wage.”
Slaves built the pyramids over 4000 years ago. Today, it would take us that long to get all the required permits. Damn good thing we got the Hoover Dam and the interstate freeway system built when we did. 0bama can decree all he wants because, as a fella called Mr. Natural once once said, “It don’t mean sheeit!”
As a bright guy said on CNBC:
China has central planning by engineers, scientists, and mathematicians.
And America has central planning by lawyers.
Neither one is good, but by definition we lose.
May the islamoNazi in Chief enjoy praying there!?
I would pay a one time fee for that
“For all you doom and gloomers wailing about the U.S. Space program, defense, missiles and rocketry - come to Huntsville.”
Would you be willing to elaborate?
The shuttle went in endless circles...Like 22,000 earth orbits...
I’d say they pretty much exhausted that.
A one time fee for a nice first class one way ticket. Would also solve his illegal alien status ?
He still be an illegal alien just then on two planets
Now, what I want to know is why the Iranians had to swap monkeys. I'm worried they splattered the original monkey all over the inside of their capsule. Everybody knows you use monkey A for all pre and post flight coverage and use some really grainy footage of monkey B from the capsule during the flight.
Our knowledge of space and our space flight engineering would be decades ahead if we had focused on robotics since 1960.
Space tourism and manned exploration are exciting and fun, but let private enterprise fund that, not taxpayers.
Anyway, where are men going to go for the next thousand years?
Three places only - our Moon, Mars, and perhaps various asteroids.
Asteroids have so little gravity that trying to stay anchored, or building a structure, or excavating a shelter would be almost impossible.
Jupiter's moons spend weeks each year passing through intense radiation belts, and intense gravitational forces would make any structure, above or below ground, inherently unstable and probably dangerous.
Venus has a crushing and highly corrosive atmosphere, and the surface temperature is 900 degrees F.
I have no doubt Earth men will travel the universe in the future.
But that will be a very long time from now.
Meanwhile, let's invest in telescopes, instruments, probes, orbiters, rovers, and Ph.D. astronomy graduates.
That, I believe, is one of the hidden messages sent to the Soviets with the Apollo moon missions-demonstrating how well US missiles could pinpoint and strike anywhere they were sent.
Zactly .....
Soertero’s legacy...
But, hey, we’re nice to the Islamists who murder our citizens...
Biracial. Bi-alien. Bisexual. Two more you get bingo?
At least the Chinese are spending our money more wisely than DC is.
I heard they ran over our American flag with their rover...the evil-doers.
> Meanwhile, U.S. astronauts have to ride Russian spacecraft to fix toilets on the International Space Station.
Ah, but don’t forget, NASA beats the entire rest of the world’s space programs *combined* in its outreach efforts to the Muzlim world.
Thanks Nachum.
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