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Trump demands NASA stop wasting money on the international space station
American Thinker ^ | 05/21/2018 | Ed Straker

Posted on 05/21/2018 12:46:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

President Trump plans to cut off funding to the International Space Station by 2025.  Many people do not even know there is an International Space Station, because it is so rarely in the news, but it has cost more than $100 billion to build and support.

What follows is a complete list of the most important discoveries of the space station over the past 20 years:

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The space station is another example of welfare for NASA.  It provides nothing to America, using taxpayer money to provide welfare for scientists and engineers to be tremendously unproductive.

NASA scientists see it differently.  That's because they are addicted to space porn: any time an image or data comes from outer space, no matter how irrelevant, astronomers experience physical arousal.  And unfortunately, they want us to pay for it.  It's like paying for drug addicts.

We are always told that the space station is doing important work.  Look, rats float in space!  Screws rotate clockwise twice as often as they rotate counterclockwise!  Why do they do that?  We need to fund another space station for 20 years to find out!

The Trump administration in February proposed ending direct U.S. government support of the space station in 2025, prompting debate and discussion over whether commercial industry can make a business of building and operating orbiting research facilities staffed by astronauts.

Why is that relevant?  If it's economical, they will do it; and if it's uneconomical, it won't get done.  What's wrong with that?


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nasa; spacestattion
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To: messierhunter

Privatize it. Then smart people like you can invest YOUR money into it and make a fortune while stupid people like me can save a little of OUR money and envy you.


61 posted on 05/22/2018 3:23:19 PM PDT by Uncle Sham
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To: Uncle Sham

No, basic research like this wouldn’t get any funding. But you’re welcome for improved cancer drugs and other health and technology improvements anyway. That CMOS chip you use to take your stupid selfies with your cell phone? NASA invented that.


62 posted on 05/23/2018 8:21:39 AM PDT by messierhunter
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To: bmwcyle

Get off free republic and stop making conservatives look like nutjobs you piece of shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80y2LP1bWH4
I’m going to keep ramming my videos down your throat until you choke.


63 posted on 05/23/2018 8:22:44 AM PDT by messierhunter
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To: messierhunter
"That CMOS chip you use to take your stupid selfies with your cell phone? NASA invented that."

Another GOOD reason to defund them. I don't need it. If everything they do is so wonderful, YOU pay for it and charge us for using it. Make yourself a fortune. Just stop asking me to invest in your money-laundering scheme.

64 posted on 05/23/2018 9:42:48 AM PDT by Uncle Sham
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To: Uncle Sham

“Another GOOD reason to defund them. I don’t need it. If everything they do is so wonderful, YOU pay for it and charge us for using it. Make yourself a fortune. Just stop asking me to invest in your money-laundering scheme.”

Science != Money-laundering. If you don’t need it, then why do you still have a cell phone? And don’t lie and claim you don’t have one. You don’t deserve the technological advancements science has made possible. Basic research doesn’t return a profit, thanks for proving you don’t understand the basic economics of how this works. And unless you want to be hypocrite, throw your computer out the window and get off the internet. If you’re going to be a neo-luddite, at least have the character to live it out in full.


65 posted on 05/24/2018 9:04:03 AM PDT by messierhunter
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To: messierhunter

Computers and science preceded NASA. The technological advancements would have occurred without NASA. NASA could not have occurred without computers and science. You have it backwards, just like your insulting style of debating. Pay for your own shit. Don’t expect others to pay for your misrepresentations of how important NASA is, was, or has been. They LIED about their trips to the moon after sucking billions of dollars out of our pockets. No more. Screw em.


66 posted on 05/24/2018 9:32:08 AM PDT by Uncle Sham
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

I remember when Tank first hit the market. We tried it.

The family was unanimous, it tasted awful. The container was eventually discarded with most of the Tang still in it.


67 posted on 05/24/2018 9:37:41 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 trillion dollars.)
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To: Uncle Sham

“The technological advancements would have occurred without NASA.”
Unsupported statement, hypocrite. But maybe we should have just let the Soviets make all the advancements and let them win the cold war. You’re a good little comrade, aren’t you? Yes, yes you are.
“They LIED about their trips to the moon “
NO, they didn’t you conspiracy theorist nutjob. Suck on it:
https://pages.astronomy.ua.edu/keel/space/apollo.html


68 posted on 05/25/2018 6:45:49 AM PDT by messierhunter
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To: Uncle Sham

Suck on allllllll of it:
http://apollo.mem-tek.com/


69 posted on 05/25/2018 6:47:40 AM PDT by messierhunter
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To: Uncle Sham

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hYIJbfS80Q
I can’t WAIT until my Apollo 8 webcast for the 50th anniversary this year. It’s going to be epic. The butthurt will be real as I simulate the entire mission in real-time using the actual Colossus 237 software that ran on the original Apollo Guidance Computer for Apollo 8.


70 posted on 05/25/2018 6:51:54 AM PDT by messierhunter
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To: messierhunter

The true “nut-job” is someone who thinks they can fool people out of their hard-earned dollars with the same sales pitch that has been PROVEN to be a lie. In your world, it seems that anyone who disagrees with you is crazy or insane. You seriously need mental intervention and help.


71 posted on 05/25/2018 6:55:55 AM PDT by Uncle Sham
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To: Uncle Sham

Amen, he is a troll and nothing more.


72 posted on 05/25/2018 6:58:13 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: SeekAndFind

If the International Space Station is of little or no use then what will going back to the moon result in? Cut NASA altogether and leave a small cadre to coordinate with private industry.


73 posted on 05/25/2018 7:01:22 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: tennmountainman
Spend the money on cheaper planetary missions.

LOL! Cheaper missions of any kind? From NASA? Seriously?

74 posted on 05/25/2018 7:04:25 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: messierhunter

SHUT UP TROLL. GO BACK UNDER YOUR BRIDGE.


78 posted on 05/25/2018 8:09:52 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: bmwcyle

Awww, did I strike a nerve? Guess I did. Sadly, you still have no explanation for how I was able to film the entire launch to landing of the SpaceX Falcon boosters, uninterrupted and uncut, using software that I wrote myself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5K7HKFkZ8o


79 posted on 05/25/2018 8:14:58 AM PDT by messierhunter
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To: messierhunter

Worthless TROLL


80 posted on 05/25/2018 8:20:47 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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