Science!

[Colonel Flagg]

Originally Posted by elx

more like goodbye U.S space program

How about let's just wait and see what the plan actually is, shall we?

And let's not forget that, as the story states, Congress controls whether the budget gets passed into law. All the president can do is propose it.

All bets will be off, incidentally, if we find oil reserves in Mare Orientale.

[Chojin]

Originally Posted by Wiffles

I wonder if the gravity field generated by a heavyset individual can be calculated. And how it influences orbiting bodies in motion @@;

lol i read this as "gravy field"

[Chojin]

jesus christ this girl is hot :<

[elx]

Originally Posted by Colonel Flagg

How about let's just wait and see what the plan actually is, shall we?

And let's not forget that, as the story states, Congress controls whether the budget gets passed into law. All the president can do is propose it.

All bets will be off, incidentally, if we find oil reserves in Mare Orientale.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8489097.stm

[Fathom Zero]

Our president is a cunt.

[Colonel Flagg]

I hope Congress has some cajones.

Oh, that's right, they don't.

As a scientist, I find this more than a little disconcerting, as the moon is by far and away the best nearby source of He(III) which is one of the better feedstocks for a potential commercial fusion reactor. As a taxpayer, however, I understand the need to make hard budget decisions.

I hope that there are enough wild speculators out there to keep the research going (as in the case of stem cell research) so that even without federal funding the science still advances (and maybe even gets better).

Ah, I'm just rationalizing.

[Fathom Zero]

It's the fucking Moon. That's reason enough. We should be trying to colonize/exploit anything we can land on.

[Chojin]

Things cost money, it turns out.

You probably can't both trim the deficit and engage in lunar expeditions. Blame the yokel who thought we needed to invade the middle east for our current lack of U.S.S. Enterprises.

[Tadao]

pretty much, you could start a fundraiser if you care that much

[Tadao]

Here is something way more important.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...tal-Cells.html

[Fathom Zero]

That looks important.

Originally Posted by Chojin

You probably can't both trim the deficit...

You gave me quite the chuckle, there.

[elx]

w/e

[elx]

and ever

[Colonel Flagg]

Who wants to be Spiderman?

http://www.rdmag.com/News/2010/02/Ma...walk-on-walls/

[Tadao]

This guy.

[Colonel Flagg]

Damned firewall!

[Tadao]

NEW YORK -- Virgin unveiled the latest addition to Richard Branson's luxury fleet on Friday: an underwater plane that will fly riders into the depths of the Caribbean Sea.


http://finance.yahoo.com/retirement/...etire-planning

[executioneer]

which virgin unveiled it though, it doesn't say

[Tadao]

You can see the logo on the ship

[executioneer]

maaaan that isn't how that joke was supposed to go

[Tadao]

Seals? I auditioned for this job!

[Chojin]

Originally Posted by Fathom Zero

You gave me quite the chuckle, there.

Cutting lunar mission funding is part of the effort starting next year to trim the deficit. This is what I was referring to. Obviously more money was added to the deficit during Obama's term thus far since the focus at that time was avoiding a depression, but even then he added far less money to the debt than Bush did.

[Colonel Flagg]

THe way I read it, the Constellation program was already waaaaaaay behind schedule, and while $9B has already been spent, it was predicted to go waaaaaaay over budget. Even Buzz Aldrin, one of the more vocal advocates of the space program, stated that this was the right move.

He's not cutting NASA's budget by much, if at all, just reprioritizing the money with funding going to more development rather than going into this single project.

I need to research the implications in more depth, but for right now, it seems that there is more to this story than just Obama cutting the moon program.

[Fathom Zero]

Originally Posted by Chojin

Cutting lunar mission funding is part of the effort starting next year to trim the deficit. This is what I was referring to. Obviously more money was added to the deficit during Obama's term thus far since the focus at that time was avoiding a depression, but even then he added far less money to the debt than Bush did.

I get that, I get that. I really do. He had a big mess to clean up. I concede that such a thing had to be done to avoid even more of a catastrophe, though there are some things I would've done differently. If I could do that, though, I wouldn't be in school at the moment. I'd probably have my own bank.

I was trying to get your goat, playing the obnoxious conservative.

[Zhukov]

Take it to the politics forum