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upchuck (profile) wrote,
on 8-10-2005 at 7:43pm
Well I wasn't going to update, but something has just stirred me to speak.

I saw a headline that said that a comapny is going to sell trips around the moon. What crazy idiot could actually spend money on this. Seriously. My god, the biggest nation in the history of the earth has been flying in space for nearly fifty years now, and still can't send people up there with any regularity. Perhaps we were getting close to that until the Columbia accident. I mean, we can't even put trained professionals up there right now and not freak that something is going wrong. What could possible make you think that we could send tourist up there and something horribly destructive won't happen.

On another note, it seemed that everyone was saying that Discovery would be the shuttle that would be prepped for any rescue mission involving the launch of Atlantis in Spetember. Does anyone know what happened to the Enterprise?
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jessa_lynne

08-11-05 12:14am

it is ridculous, expensive, and dangerous, but can you imagine how amazing it would be?

you know, if nasa could get all the bugs worked out, they could sell trips to the moon and probably make so much money for all the crap they do...

blah.

i'm awful about space. marty and i fight about it all the time. he's convinced the space program is hugely important, and i think it's an enormous waste of money (there are problems right here on earth that we haven't dealt with; why ignore them and spend billions studying moon rocks?). i'm horribly ignorant like that.

:P

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upchuck

Re:, 08-19-05 11:19pm

I agree on both points. I think it would be amazing, but there are also better things to spend money on.
But, then again, if it wasn't for government and the space program we wouldn't have had half the technological breakthroughs that we've had.

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