Re: Hillary needs to quit

Forge <forge@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>Personally I fully support a complete restructuring of NASA; I happen to 
>think Bush's stupid fucking Mars initiative is a stupid fucking idea 
>from the stupidest fucking stupid fuck in the StupidFuckiverse. We need 

Yeah - we need to get to work on the moon. We can mine a fortune of metals
and volatiles there, do important research, set up powerful radio and
optical telescopes shielded from the earth, and at the same time learn
what
it really means to be a spacefaring civilization. We don't need a space
race to mars - when it comes time to send people there, it will be *easy*
for us, because the infrastructure will be built to do it. At the moment,
we don't even know of a good way to safely land people on mars - we're not
exactly going to use the soccer ball method.

NASA needs real work to do, and it needs to be more than reformed - it
needs to have every position from janitor on up put under review by
scientists, not freaking bureaucrats. I have some respect for what they're
trying to do with constellation, but I think they could do a hell of a lot
better. 

What I really want to see is a space elevator before any of this - carbon
nanotube-based have already been shown in the lab to be strong enough.
There's only the mass production to be worked out. *
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       like corkscrews.