Why no Space Shuttle discussion?

[Man with the Golden Arm]

hmmm...

[Soulstation1]

i hope they make it back safely

[Claude]

I support a space shuttle discussion -_-

[WD45]

I did a report on the space shuttle in the 6th grade.

[Soul Stream]

I put this story into the "let's freak out for a week" catagory of 24 hour news rotation. Frankly, I'm tired of being targeted by the news people for "freakout" status every week.

[couw]

[Soul Stream]

Don't look now, your ceramic tile filler is showing...

Edited August 3, 2005 by Soul Stream

[jazzbo]

Why bother to discuss it? NASA never shows us what's really out there. . . .

[JSngry]

That's because NASA is really SATAN without the T and if you hide the T in NASA you get NASTA and that's just what this all is - a NASTA plan to find a new world for NASTA to rule once he have destroyed ours. He thinks he's the NASTA race but he's really just SATAN with his T in his whole.

I have learned well from the Saturnallian one!

[Christiern]

Impressive but insignificant when one considers what else is going on in our world. Frankly, I'd prefer to see some outrage over the fact that we are spending billions in space an on a frivolous no-win war while thousands of children and their mothers are starving to death in Sudan.

[WD45]

Why bother to discuss it?  NASA never shows us what's really out there. . . .

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Space is the Place...

[Soul Stream]

Aren't the space shuttles just like a trucking company these days, hauling up com satallites and servicing the space station?

When are we going to GO somewhere?! Hell, even the moon again would be nice. After all, doesn't human interest come into play anymore. NASA has just turned into another multi-zillion dollar corporation servicing other multimillion dollar corporations it seems.

[GregK]

The Shuttle is pretty "cool" and all, some nifty science to get it up there and back, but I cringe whenever they discuss the "experiments" being sent up with it. There's never any real, interesting or useful science ever sent up to be studied, it's mostly frivolous or pointless stuff that isn't very necessary. The real science is in the moving the thing, parking it, then driving it back home

[Christiern]

That's true, Greg, but while the cost is astronomical (pardon), we do reap benefits in terms of high technology and materials that have become part of our everyday lives.

I still think we have warped priorities, however.

[J Larsen]

The Shuttle is pretty "cool" and all, some nifty science to get it up there and back, but I cringe whenever they discuss the "experiments" being sent up with it. There's never any real, interesting or useful science ever sent up to be studied, it's mostly frivolous or pointless stuff that isn't very necessary. The real science is in the moving the thing, parking it, then driving it back home

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Agreed. I have a long winded diatribe abouut this in the politics forum from sometime last year. It is telling that no shuttle experiment has ever produced a peer-reviewed paper (unless maybe you count an article or two on the "misguideness" of the crystal growth experiments they used to do up there...).

[jazzbo]

I do too. . . only I really see that WE'RE the ones who are the weirdos Chris, those in power making the decisions march to the beat of a very different drummer. . . .

It's the way of the world. I wish it weren't. I wish we had people with real compassion and wisdom at the helm. Will we ever? Have we ever?

[J Larsen]

That's true, Greg, but while the cost is astronomical (pardon), we do reap benefits in terms of high technology and materials that have become part of our everyday lives.

I still think we have warped priorities, however.

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You would reap the same type of benefits from any large-scale scientific research effort. A serious effort in fusion power, for instance. Even our feeble effort in that regard has produced technology and materials that benefit the everyday life of the average citizen.

Edited August 4, 2005 by J Larsen