Obama wants to replace US astronaut core with... Robots

Not ALL astronauts, and not all at once but his plan relies heavily on automated exploration and private spaceflights, oh yeah and giving the Russians sole flight access to the ISS

http://io9.com/5518091/will-we-ever-send-another-american-into-space?view=iphone

a sad fact of the state of the world today, i guess. manned space travel is fucking fun but it's not as useful for killing a-rabs as it was for pissing off commies

I spelled corps wrong, doh!

fuck going to the moon or mars anyway. they're well shit.

Fuck the moon , there is nothing there.The goal should be mars , or one of the "Habitable" moons, a civilization's goal is to expand their empire to the stars , not to play golf on the moon and "beat the soviets".

A manned trip to the moon is fucking useless , robots are the way to go.

You fucking yanks are insane , first you complain how your fucking money is being wasted , and now you complain that your money is not being wasted enough.

Also , fuck nationalism.

so why is using robots worse than risking the lives of top scientists? i don't get it. or are we tapping into some stale cold war sentiments in this thread?

i won't rest until there's civil war on titan.

I think Neil Armstrong's point, and I agree is we cannot afford to lose access to low earth orbit on our own, what happens when one of the space satellites needs servicing and the robotics available aren't advanced enough to handle it? Or when china or n Korea pulls some crazy and decides to shoot down a spy satellite or send their own men into orbit andess with who knows what we or other nations have up there? I'm thinking we will end up joining more with EU, Canada and Japan for orbital missions especially when all 3 have launch capabilities for manned missions.

rubin - are you a tea party sympathiser? sounds like it... not trying to be an idiot here, it's just your argument is based on this spectre of a terrible attack on the US (or US interests) by those bastard commies. why are the tea party people convinced that the most powerful nation on earth, with the most advanced military, is suddenly going to be attacked by some largely third world country.... it's not going to happen! arguments based on america being invaded, or embroiled in a war it might "lose" are pretty much redundant since the end of the cold war.... just relax man, no one's going to mess with your satellites...

WE MUST PROTECT AMERICA'S BORDER WITH SPACE.

lol at all the people saying manned spaceflight is what nasa is all about

we're just throwing some robots into space until we can make it reasonably safe before we start carting people up there. to all the people who want to be a neil armstrong astronaut, you missed the boat (shuttle) by about 50 years

sending robots into space is the IDM thing to do

commercial space flight is the future, anyway.

  On 4/16/2010 at 6:03 PM, BCM said:

rubin - are you a tea party sympathiser? sounds like it... not trying to be an idiot here, it's just your argument is based on this spectre of a terrible attack on the US (or US interests) by those bastard commies. why are the tea party people convinced that the most powerful nation on earth, with the most advanced military, is suddenly going to be attacked by some largely third world country.... it's not going to happen! arguments based on america being invaded, or embroiled in a war it might "lose" are pretty much redundant since the end of the cold war.... just relax man, no one's going to mess with your satellites...

everywhere i go people talk about tea parties its unavoidable, please stop giving them attention

  On 4/16/2010 at 5:16 PM, futuregirlfriend said:

i won't rest until there's civil war on titan.

  On 4/16/2010 at 6:03 PM, BCM said:

rubin - are you a tea party sympathiser? sounds like it... not trying to be an idiot here, it's just your argument is based on this spectre of a terrible attack on the US (or US interests) by those bastard commies. why are the tea party people convinced that the most powerful nation on earth, with the most advanced military, is suddenly going to be attacked by some largely third world country.... it's not going to happen! arguments based on america being invaded, or embroiled in a war it might "lose" are pretty much redundant since the end of the cold war.... just relax man, no one's going to mess with your satellites...

dude i am a died in the furburger liberal Democrat, what i'm saying is if countries like China or N Korea (especially Korea) sense we have the inability to defend or even access our space interests, that crazy Dr. Evil muthafucka wouldn't hesitate to fire off a couple of long range missiles (which he's already threatening Japan with) to try and squeeze more food aid out of us bc he and his father have fucking starved 3 generation of Koreans with their fucked up Godhood dictatorship. as for the Tea Baggers, you KNOW Fox News would jump all over some "terrorist space plot" to whip up the uneducated masses and push for some kind of space defense which the republicans have wanted ever since Reagan saw Star Wars on acid and decided he needed a Death Star.

fuking commentary from watmm

LOL

  On 4/16/2010 at 10:18 PM, elusive4 said:

fuking commentary from watmm

 

LOL

aren't you the dude who came into the WIkileaks thread and started showing us poorly MS paint highlighted silhouettes of 'RPG's held by the Reuters Cameramen and proceeded to tell us how we're all being biased by the liberal media?

I heard somewhere that one of NASA's goals is to use spacecrafts to more effectively harness solar energy to help get us out of our fucked oil situation.

I also hear that Jupiter is just 5,991,290,231,177,004 marshmallows chewed up and mushed together by God.

He wants to land in a fucking asteroid.

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President Barack Obama set a lofty next goal this week for Americans in space: Visiting an asteroid by 2025. But reaching a space rock in a mere 15 years is a daunting mission, and one that might also carry the ultimate safety of the planet on its shoulders, inspired by Bruce Willis' Armageddon

  On 4/17/2010 at 5:15 AM, Boxing Day said:

He wants to land in a fucking asteroid.

 

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President Barack Obama set a lofty next goal this week for Americans in space: Visiting an asteroid by 2025. But reaching a space rock in a mere 15 years is a daunting mission, and one that might also carry the ultimate safety of the planet on its shoulders, inspired by Bruce Willis' Armageddon

an Earth-crossing asteroid? that would be fucking awesome - but something much more cheaply and safely achieved by robots ja

  On 4/16/2010 at 10:12 PM, Rubin Farr said:

  On 4/16/2010 at 6:03 PM, BCM said:

dude i am a died in the furburger liberal Democrat, what i'm saying is if countries like China or N Korea (especially Korea) sense we have the inability to defend or even access our space interests, that crazy Dr. Evil muthafucka wouldn't hesitate to fire off a couple of long range missiles (which he's already threatening Japan with) to try and squeeze more food aid out of us bc he and his father have fucking starved 3 generation of Koreans with their fucked up Godhood dictatorship. as for the Tea Baggers, you KNOW Fox News would jump all over some "terrorist space plot" to whip up the uneducated masses and push for some kind of space defense which the republicans have wanted ever since Reagan saw Star Wars on acid and decided he needed a Death Star.

North Korea can't do shit, they can be safely ignored. That lame-arse nuke they let off a few years ago (which they hailed as the greatest fucking achievement ever) was so puny that the same explosive force could feasibly be produced from realistic amounts of TNT. as for their rockets they're probably fucking coal-powered and wouldn't even get off the launchpad.

  On 4/17/2010 at 6:12 AM, ezkerraldean said:

  On 4/16/2010 at 10:12 PM, Rubin Farr said:

  On 4/16/2010 at 6:03 PM, BCM said:

dude i am a died in the furburger liberal Democrat, what i'm saying is if countries like China or N Korea (especially Korea) sense we have the inability to defend or even access our space interests, that crazy Dr. Evil muthafucka wouldn't hesitate to fire off a couple of long range missiles (which he's already threatening Japan with) to try and squeeze more food aid out of us bc he and his father have fucking starved 3 generation of Koreans with their fucked up Godhood dictatorship. as for the Tea Baggers, you KNOW Fox News would jump all over some "terrorist space plot" to whip up the uneducated masses and push for some kind of space defense which the republicans have wanted ever since Reagan saw Star Wars on acid and decided he needed a Death Star.

North Korea can't do shit, they can be safely ignored. That lame-arse nuke they let off a few years ago (which they hailed as the greatest fucking achievement ever) was so puny that the same explosive force could feasibly be produced from realistic amounts of TNT. as for their rockets they're probably fucking coal-powered and wouldn't even get off the launchpad.

 

i just biked in here to say, i'm glad your signature has become an institution here on watmm. if it were to leave, it would become one of those things i miss without knowing what it is, an empty space on the tip of my tongue. schietecat twiewielers. schiete.

why not replace the astronauts with juggalos?

hey guys

I worked on the Orion program, which Obama is canceling. I also landed the Phoenix spacecraft on mars as a mission controller. One thing I'll tell you, which NASA has kept a lid on, is that our spacecraft found a chemical compound on Mars that is toxic to all life. This precludes anybody's hopes and dreams of putting men on Mars, let alone colonizing Mars. I'm all for sending robots instead of astronauts into space. It does piss me off that Obama canceled something that I and my friends worked on so hard, though.