Yes, John. Folks died. The world, however, advanced.
You're a goddamned idiot.
You are beyond lost.
Your mother is ugly, and should be in prison, s*****ad.
The world is a casualty of your pathetic existence.
I followed with great interest the "Apollo" reality-TV series which was running in the 1968-1972 seasons :-).
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It was a primitive, early stimulus package. That lead to better technology--now we can spend money faster.
Of course those are paybacks but a different kind; useful, depending on the eye of the (eric) beholder.
-- Cheers, James Arthur
-- John Larkin Highland Technology Inc www.highlandtechnology.com jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com Precision electronic instrumentation Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators Custom timing and laser controllers Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links VME analog, thermocouple, LVDT, synchro, tachometer Multichannel arbitrary waveform generators
Memory foam!
Makes a great mattress.
Fabulous, in a small way. But it was developed for airplanes, not for manned spaceflight. A lot of the non-astronaut stuff that NASA does is good. But most of their budget is wasted on dangerous, useless manned stuff.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology Inc www.highlandtechnology.com jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com Precision electronic instrumentation Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators Custom timing and laser controllers Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links VME analog, thermocouple, LVDT, synchro, tachometer Multichannel arbitrary waveform generators
Do you think that, politically, it would be easier or harder to justify their current budget if they dropped all manned space flight?
Historically, it was the manned stuff that ginned up all the money. The public wants to see sci-fi men in space suits, not pseudocolor pictures of galaxies. NASA couldn't have got its half-trillion-dollar cumulative expendature without manned spaceflight.
The National Science Foundation has spent a fourth of what NASA has. NASA now gets "about 35% of total spending on academic scientific research in the United States." That is insane in too many ways.
If NASA was just doing science, and not sci-fi, there's no way it would get four times as much funding as NSF. Imagine what sorts of health and science breakthroughs we might have had, for the money we spent killing astronauts.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology Inc www.highlandtechnology.com jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com Precision electronic instrumentation Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators Custom timing and laser controllers Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links VME analog, thermocouple, LVDT, synchro, tachometer Multichannel arbitrary waveform generators
Looking at the NASA situation from the outside, it appears that in order to get any large project done, you need at least half the senators and congressmen behind your project, thus huge projects are needed in order to get as many supporters as possible.
The best way to secure the support is to offer contracts/money to companies in your electoral district, i.e. find a subcontractor within your election district, no matter how bad.
As a result, the Challanger disaster was a result of booster segmentation dictated by the requirement of transporting SRBs across the continent below bridges.
And a decision to eliminate asbestos in the joint putty. And management overriding engineers warnings.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com http://www.highlandtechnology.com Precision electronic instrumentation Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators Custom laser drivers and controllers Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links VME thermocouple, LVDT, synchro acquisition and simulation
Political management.
Particular requirements are NO excuse for bad engineering-- anytime, but particuarly when it has the potential to kill people.
They should have found a way to do it safely or pushed back.
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NASA procurement - We need 25 square yards of "Velcro" - Price $5,234,000.00
K-mart procurement - We need 25 million yards of Velcro. Price $5 a yard
Now who made it cheap enough for the rest of us?
...or how many more illegitimate children we could have.
You sound like an *engineer*.
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The techniques that led to the machine, yes. Teflon's the same deal. It's been around since the flood but was very expensive to make.
they guy that used the $5,234,000.00 to develop a machine that could make it for $5 a yard?
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No, the $5,234,000.00 stuff was all made by hand.
When K-mart placed the order, the machine was invented.
Same with semiconductors.
These days, most illegitimate children are born to parents in stable relationships who haven't bothered to get married - which isn't a problem. Right-wing nitwits want to believe that they are all born to career single mothers who want to increase the amount that they collect from social security, which may happen, but only with people crazy enough to need more psychiatric support than the US health care system is funded to give them.
-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
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