Comments on: What’s next on NASA’s chopping block?

By: Moonage Political Webdream » Democrats are stifling science

Moonage Political Webdream » Democrats are stifling science — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 04:32:46 +0000

[…] ignored since I didn’t publish it as a for-profit venture in the form of a paperback.Â Well, imagine my surprise, or lack thereof, when I read this today on the Bad Astronomer’s blo…: But this year, itâ€™s even bleaker: Congress told agencies that they can keep going, but they have […]

By: Lab Lemming

Lab Lemming — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 10:56:29 +0000

“The ideal candidate is a fairly new, lower priority effort where not a lot of money has already been invested”

Like sending people to the moon?

By: Ray Gray

Ray Gray — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:10:24 +0000

I read that the rock & roll band The Rolling Stones made almost $500,000,000 touring and playing concerts in the years 2005 and 2006.

They had an old song with lyrics: “Hey Hey You You Get Off Of My Cloud”

NASA needs to get busy by finding a large paying audience soon.

By: Moonage Political Webdream

Moonage Political Webdream — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:13:09 +0000

Democrats are stifling science…

A while back I got into a little to-do with a Bad Astronomer who got political. He fully felt, along with a lot of academic science folks, that Republicans were bad on science. He noted a couple of reasons why….

By: The Bad Astronomer

The Bad Astronomer — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:50:17 +0000

Actually, I disagree strongly with Bob’s position on manned spaceflight. I think it’s important, and there is a good place for it. The thing is, it can’t exist at the cost of unmanned flight. So what we need is more money. And we really don’t need a whole lot more to fund both.

By: SLC

SLC — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:20:31 +0000

The answer to NASAs’ woes is to follow Bob Parks’ advice, can manned space missions.
But of course, Dr. Park doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:17:34 +0000

It’s really sad to see a great nation struggling in its death throes. Without major expenditures on R and D(especially the R) the USA will end up a minor player on the world stage. Oh well, I guess we can just do the Roman thing and invade anyone who has what we want. Hey, it’s a lot easier to steal new tech. than build it ourselves and we have so much practise convincing the American public to kick butt on petty dictators it should be easy to convince them we need to invade China or India because they have the “stuff” we want,,,

Gary 7