Obama cancels NASA moon shit

burn hollywood burn

the US just needs to turn to the luxury market like a lot of euro nations. Germany has bmw, we have...amish furniture?

maybe if we had the funds to do something meaningful on the Moon, but we're kinda fucked with the economy right now.

the right just wants to rip him for EVERYTHING and it's actually quite pathetic, at this point. i never thought i'd see such division in politics. it's all about one sports team against another and it does nothing to move the country forward. Absolutely nothing.

And we slip down a notch on yet another nation measuring stick.

  On 2/2/2010 at 4:42 AM, chenGOD said:

  On 2/2/2010 at 3:57 AM, troon said:

fuck useless trips to the moon

 

Yeah, all the knowledge and technology produced from the space program should just be forgotten.

We should just follow the words of some 2000 year old book and everything will turn out just fine.

LOL

So anyway. Did anyone read the article? He withdrew money from the current Constellation project to inject it into future endeavours with better technology. In fact his budget request plans to add an extra $6bn to NASA over the next 5 years.

"While we're cancelling Constellation, we're not cancelling our ambitions," said Jim Kohlenberger, chief of staff at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).

"This isn't a step backwards. I think the step backwards was trying to recreate the Moon landings of 40 years ago using largely yesterday's technology, instead of game-changing new technology that can take us further, faster and more affordably into space."

Unless he's LYING!?!?!

Damn! I would totally pitch in $20 if it meant Obama got to take a shit on the moon.

ps Edit: Would the shit even hit the moon? Or would it just kind of float there ... and would it come out of his ass into a big bubble like when you see as(s)tronauts drinking on space shuttles? Or would it hit the moon and then bounce around, creating a trail of turdsplats for aliens to sniff and follow, spelling out "Obama's ass wuz here"?

In other news, a company in China is buying Hummer, the auto of opulence. Sort of. I hope I spelled opulence correctly.

Do we ever see the results of space exploration? I never hear of a new product, method of doing something or vaccine created in space. What are they doing up there?!? Are all these Mars projects just tiny pieces of data that will eventually complete a large-scale scientific puzzle 100 years from now?

Other than the pretty pictures, tacky CGI recreations and spectacular rocket launches, I believe the general U.S. public receives no sense of gratification from the space program.

I even have a NASA app on my iPhone. It always says something like, "THEY'RE DOING AN EXPERIMENT ON THE ISS TO SEE IF MUSHROOMS WILL GROW UPSIDE DOWN IN A UV-FREE AND GRAVITY-FREE ENVIRONMENT." wtf

Also, do you think astronauts ever got it on up in space? Wouldn't you HAVE to? I mean, just staring out the window at that big 'ol earth with boobies and gonads floating freely in zero-G. It's enough to make me moist.

We can just buy a ticket on Branson's shuttle, anyway. ha

They need to see if shit can grow properly in low gravity environments so when we begin to colonize the Moon and whatnot we can build our biodomes and grow shit.

And they will certainly be emphasizing the sex when we go to land on Mars in 2030. The team that go will have to be extremely strong psychologically to be out of range for so long and it will HAVE to be a mixed gender crew with lots of boning or they will lose it. There was a dude who stayed for three months in a space station and was cracking up through boredom and alienation by the time he got back. Mars would be at its shortest an 18 month round trip, so there would be sex, video games, puzzles, constant exercise and if they're fucking lucky we will have sussed virtual reality by then.

Sex in space. Awesome.

  On 2/2/2010 at 5:20 PM, Obel said:

Mars would be at its shortest an 18 month round trip, so there would be sex, video games, puzzles, constant exercise and if they're fucking lucky we will have sussed virtual reality by then.

 

If physical fitness wasn't a prerequisite for space travel, they could just recruit your standard WoW fan

  On 2/2/2010 at 3:10 PM, messiaen said:

  On 2/2/2010 at 8:21 AM, chax said:

 

why do you hate America?

it really does make a ton of sense considering the horrible future that awaits the united states economy and it's place as a world superpower:

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/us/politics/02deficit.html?hp

 

the US is going to become like 1980s japan while china rules us all

 

 

some might say you (we) fucking deserve it.

  On 2/2/2010 at 5:24 PM, lumpenprol said:

  On 2/2/2010 at 5:20 PM, Obel said:

Mars would be at its shortest an 18 month round trip, so there would be sex, video games, puzzles, constant exercise and if they're fucking lucky we will have sussed virtual reality by then.

 

 

If physical fitness wasn't a prerequisite for space travel, they could just recruit your standard WoW fan

That lag would get unbearable after a month or so though.

  On 2/2/2010 at 4:41 PM, EDGEY said:

And we slip down a notch on yet another nation measuring stick.

I would have thought you of all people would be all for this?

lol $6 billion.

i love the priorities of our government. seriously makes me nauseous. i wonder how much societal benefit that $6 billion is going to get vs the $600 billion bailout for companies too stupid to know what's a good investment.

CAPITALISM

  On 2/2/2010 at 8:19 PM, theSun said:

lol $6 billion.

 

i love the priorities of our government. seriously makes me nauseous. i wonder how much societal benefit that $6 billion is going to get vs the $600 billion bailout for companies too stupid to know what's a good investment.

 

CAPITALISM

That's $6bn on top of the current budget. But that doesn't make what you said any less of a good point.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Budget

orite i should have rtfa probably. so that would mean we're thrown 23 billion at nasa? that's more like it.

lol @ this thread

fuck you seagal

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/02/nasa-reboots-focuses-on-cheaper-sustainable-exploration.ars

This should be the story.

  On 2/2/2010 at 8:47 PM, essines said:

lol @ this thread

good to see they are still at least thinking about making sustainable space stations.

  On 2/2/2010 at 4:41 PM, EDGEY said:

And we slip down a notch on yet another nation measuring stick.

MANIFEST DESTINY, WOOHOO

USA USA USA

fuck normal space. i want ultraspace.

  On 2/2/2010 at 5:12 PM, Tony Danza said:

Do we ever see the results of space exploration? I never hear of a new product, method of doing something or vaccine created in space. What are they doing up there?!? Are all these Mars projects just tiny pieces of data that will eventually complete a large-scale scientific puzzle 100 years from now?

you're probably right, but i don't give a fuck, we should still do shit in space because it's awesome, innit.

plus without people having gone into space and shit, i wouldn't have been able to do my masters project lol