Nasa needs a bailout too! [modified]
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A couple billions short to reach their targets for 2020: http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE57D45Z20090814[^] President Bush already gave a billion dollar boost in 2004: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3395165.stm[^] (edit) And President Obama is ready to give away 13 billion dollars for railways: http://metrospirit.com/index.php?cat=1211101074307265&ShowArticle_ID=11011108094355270[^] (/edit) (edit2) Quotes: "...how, in an era of trillion-dollar deficits, to find money to reinvigorate space exploration and avoid pulling the plug on a program that just celebrated the 40th anniversary of its first lunar landing." ... "But Obama officials were reluctant to kill the program by decree. They preferred that an independent panel come to what they saw as the only logical conclusion: that Ares I was, as one put it, "infeasible."" ... "Giving NASA a couple more billion dollars a year for the next 20 years isn't really going to affect the deficit that much, considering how huge the deficit is," Smith said. "So it's a matter of presidential policy and what Obama wants to do." :omg: (/edit2)
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modified on Sunday, August 16, 2009 5:36 AM
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A couple billions short to reach their targets for 2020: http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE57D45Z20090814[^] President Bush already gave a billion dollar boost in 2004: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3395165.stm[^] (edit) And President Obama is ready to give away 13 billion dollars for railways: http://metrospirit.com/index.php?cat=1211101074307265&ShowArticle_ID=11011108094355270[^] (/edit) (edit2) Quotes: "...how, in an era of trillion-dollar deficits, to find money to reinvigorate space exploration and avoid pulling the plug on a program that just celebrated the 40th anniversary of its first lunar landing." ... "But Obama officials were reluctant to kill the program by decree. They preferred that an independent panel come to what they saw as the only logical conclusion: that Ares I was, as one put it, "infeasible."" ... "Giving NASA a couple more billion dollars a year for the next 20 years isn't really going to affect the deficit that much, considering how huge the deficit is," Smith said. "So it's a matter of presidential policy and what Obama wants to do." :omg: (/edit2)
You can't turn lead into gold, unless you've built yourself a nuclear plant.
modified on Sunday, August 16, 2009 5:36 AM
Just because the private economy is in shambles doesn't mean the government agencies are in any better shape.
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A couple billions short to reach their targets for 2020: http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE57D45Z20090814[^] President Bush already gave a billion dollar boost in 2004: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3395165.stm[^] (edit) And President Obama is ready to give away 13 billion dollars for railways: http://metrospirit.com/index.php?cat=1211101074307265&ShowArticle_ID=11011108094355270[^] (/edit) (edit2) Quotes: "...how, in an era of trillion-dollar deficits, to find money to reinvigorate space exploration and avoid pulling the plug on a program that just celebrated the 40th anniversary of its first lunar landing." ... "But Obama officials were reluctant to kill the program by decree. They preferred that an independent panel come to what they saw as the only logical conclusion: that Ares I was, as one put it, "infeasible."" ... "Giving NASA a couple more billion dollars a year for the next 20 years isn't really going to affect the deficit that much, considering how huge the deficit is," Smith said. "So it's a matter of presidential policy and what Obama wants to do." :omg: (/edit2)
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That's a shame. NASA is probably the only place I would like to see the government increase funding. If we're going to set billions on fire anyway I'd like to see it done in place that can help us to get a better understanding of the universe around us.
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That's a shame. NASA is probably the only place I would like to see the government increase funding. If we're going to set billions on fire anyway I'd like to see it done in place that can help us to get a better understanding of the universe around us.
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pelnor wrote:
NASA is probably the only place I would like to see the government increase funding
Yep! Given the huge amounts allocated to private AND public sector, this is surprising, Nasa with boxes full of amazing projects did not get anything so far. :doh:
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A couple billions short to reach their targets for 2020: http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE57D45Z20090814[^] President Bush already gave a billion dollar boost in 2004: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3395165.stm[^] (edit) And President Obama is ready to give away 13 billion dollars for railways: http://metrospirit.com/index.php?cat=1211101074307265&ShowArticle_ID=11011108094355270[^] (/edit) (edit2) Quotes: "...how, in an era of trillion-dollar deficits, to find money to reinvigorate space exploration and avoid pulling the plug on a program that just celebrated the 40th anniversary of its first lunar landing." ... "But Obama officials were reluctant to kill the program by decree. They preferred that an independent panel come to what they saw as the only logical conclusion: that Ares I was, as one put it, "infeasible."" ... "Giving NASA a couple more billion dollars a year for the next 20 years isn't really going to affect the deficit that much, considering how huge the deficit is," Smith said. "So it's a matter of presidential policy and what Obama wants to do." :omg: (/edit2)
You can't turn lead into gold, unless you've built yourself a nuclear plant.
modified on Sunday, August 16, 2009 5:36 AM
Pierre Leclercq wrote:
A couple billions short to reach their targets for 2020:
If these projects are viable then it will be money well spent.
Pierre Leclercq wrote:
President Bush already gave a billion dollar boost in 2004:
Perhaps W wasn't as dense as you make him out to be?
Pierre Leclercq wrote:
And President Obama is ready to give away 13 billion dollars for railways:
One doesn’t "give away" to railroads, one invests in infrastructure. :~
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A couple billions short to reach their targets for 2020: http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE57D45Z20090814[^] President Bush already gave a billion dollar boost in 2004: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3395165.stm[^] (edit) And President Obama is ready to give away 13 billion dollars for railways: http://metrospirit.com/index.php?cat=1211101074307265&ShowArticle_ID=11011108094355270[^] (/edit) (edit2) Quotes: "...how, in an era of trillion-dollar deficits, to find money to reinvigorate space exploration and avoid pulling the plug on a program that just celebrated the 40th anniversary of its first lunar landing." ... "But Obama officials were reluctant to kill the program by decree. They preferred that an independent panel come to what they saw as the only logical conclusion: that Ares I was, as one put it, "infeasible."" ... "Giving NASA a couple more billion dollars a year for the next 20 years isn't really going to affect the deficit that much, considering how huge the deficit is," Smith said. "So it's a matter of presidential policy and what Obama wants to do." :omg: (/edit2)
You can't turn lead into gold, unless you've built yourself a nuclear plant.
modified on Sunday, August 16, 2009 5:36 AM
13 billion should be just enough to lay tracks from the Earth to the Moon ;) We would still need something to allow the tracks to rotate around the Earth along with the Moon :rolleyes:
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