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Manned space flight is a waste of money.
Robots can do it cheaper and better.
More R2D2 less Buck Rodgers
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Manned space flight is a waste of money.
Robots can do it cheaper and better.
Tbh, his plan for commercial Space industry fails.
NASA had a local workforce. Now this commercial place will bring in workers from other areas and basically force the current locals to move due to lack of jobs (and a job is almost an extinct species here).
We are privatizing space travel.I wish he were cutting spending on NASA, but a basic 5 second google search proves Armstrong's words to be nothing but jibberish.
NASA Budget - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The cuts are being planned by the administration, not congress. Read the link.
You read it. And go slow. Here, let me help you.
Before they get to this part:
President Obama's proposed 2011 budget did not include funds for Constellation, therefore essentially canceling the program.
There was this part:
However, due to its congressionally authorized funding falling victim to Office of Management and Budget cuts, earmarks and other unexpected financial diversions, Constellation fell behind schedule. An administration-appointed review committee concluded the Constellation program was "not viable" due to inadequate funding.
It says the program was pretty much ruined by congress. Obama's plan is best. We need to develop "NEW" technology. Not just go to the moon to prove we still can.
I think the problem is, when we can't keep the roads in repair, we really shouldn't be worried about the value of putting a man on Mars for a few days when we can put a robot on Mars for a fraction of that and learn a lot more because it will be there a lot longer.
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I think the problem is, when we can't keep the roads in repair, we really shouldn't be worried about the value of putting a man on Mars for a few days when we can put a robot on Mars for a fraction of that and learn a lot more because it will be there a lot longer.
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FYI - virtually all funding for roads and bridges in the US comes from gasoline taxes collected at the pump, and those monies are dedicated to the Highway Trust Fund. No general funding (as pays for NASA programs) goes to the maintenance of our roads. It's all targetted by use taxes. The outcry that our roads and bridges are falling apart is misguided and off topic.
The cuts are being planned by the administration, not congress. Read the link.
You read it. And go slow. Here, let me help you.
Before they get to this part:
President Obama's proposed 2011 budget did not include funds for Constellation, therefore essentially canceling the program.
There was this part:
However, due to its congressionally authorized funding falling victim to Office of Management and Budget cuts, earmarks and other unexpected financial diversions, Constellation fell behind schedule. An administration-appointed review committee concluded the Constellation program was "not viable" due to inadequate funding.
It says the program was pretty much ruined by congress. Obama's plan is best. We need to develop "NEW" technology. Not just go to the moon to prove we still can.
The cancellation of programs described by Zubrin is not about going to the moon. It's about planetary science missions and the support they need on the ground.
Congress approves final budgets but the administration determines which programs within an agency go forward. The administratrion has determined to cancel vital research/exploration missions. Some of them are listed in the link I posted:
Here goes again:
. . . in its new budget, the Obama administration intends to terminate NASAs planetary exploration program.
. . . The Mars Science Lab Curiosity, being readied on the pad, will be launched, as will the nearly completed small MAVEN orbiter scheduled for 2013, but that will be it.
. . . the plan from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) also leaves the space astronomy program adrift and headed for destruction.
. . . The now-orbiting Kepler Telescope will be turned off in midmission
. . . Webb Telescope, [the replacement for Hubble 5-times more powerful] ... is not sufficiently funded to allow successful completion
. . . The ostensible reason for the administrations decision to kill planetary exploration and space astronomy is budgetary discipline.
. . . Yet while federal spending has grown 40 percent since 2008, NASAs funding has remained virtually the same.
Umm think about what the spending growth since 2008 was for.
I'm a huge fan of the space program...always have been, but its my understanding that two unpaid for wars, unpaid for tax cuts and an unpaid for Medicare Part D program topped with Wall Street Greed and malfeasance has left this country in a bit of a pickle financially.
I mean, we're supposed to be on a budget right? Justify spending on NASA when the GnOP wants to cut Social Security and give coupons for old folks to purchase Medicare.
Come on Private Industry...time for you to take over without all that government welfare. Where is my commercial space flight?
So, instead of being prudent with the budget, Obama ADDS more debt?I'm a huge fan of the space program...always have been, but its my understanding that two unpaid for wars, unpaid for tax cuts and an unpaid for Medicare Part D program topped with Wall Street Greed and malfeasance has left this country in a bit of a pickle financially.
I mean, we're supposed to be on a budget right? Justify spending on NASA when the GnOP wants to cut Social Security and give coupons for old folks to purchase Medicare.
Come on Private Industry...time for you to take over without all that government welfare. Where is my commercial space flight?
Obama and Democrats hate science.
So, instead of being prudent with the budget, Obama ADDS more debt?I'm a huge fan of the space program...always have been, but its my understanding that two unpaid for wars, unpaid for tax cuts and an unpaid for Medicare Part D program topped with Wall Street Greed and malfeasance has left this country in a bit of a pickle financially.
I mean, we're supposed to be on a budget right? Justify spending on NASA when the GnOP wants to cut Social Security and give coupons for old folks to purchase Medicare.
Come on Private Industry...time for you to take over without all that government welfare. Where is my commercial space flight?
And, cuts the space program.
These are differing paradigms of improtance. One does not preclude the other. As a matter of fact, assisting flood victims can be radically enhanced by endeavors in space, even by mere spinoffs.I think the problem is, when we can't keep the roads in repair, we really shouldn't be worried about the value of putting a man on Mars for a few days when we can put a robot on Mars for a fraction of that and learn a lot more because it will be there a lot longer.
<SNIP>
FYI - virtually all funding for roads and bridges in the US comes from gasoline taxes collected at the pump, and those monies are dedicated to the Highway Trust Fund. No general funding (as pays for NASA programs) goes to the maintenance of our roads. It's all targetted by use taxes. The outcry that our roads and bridges are falling apart is misguided and off topic.
Putting a man on Mars is frivolous when we are arguing about where to get the money to help flood victims.
Build robots and let them roam Mars to your hearts content
Obama and Democrats hate science.
Republicans make up their own science