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...and they’re still years away from launch?
Not sure where you are getting your information. SLS launch status: No earlier than late 2019. Yeah, I can tell you are a big fan of SpaceX.
...and they’re still years away from launch?
Not sure where you are getting your information. SLS launch status: No earlier than late 2019. Yeah, I can tell you are a big fan of SpaceX.
I can tell you’re not A big fan of numbers.
Not sure where you are getting your information. SLS launch status: No earlier than late 2019. Yeah, I can tell you are a big fan of SpaceX.
If we got mining the moon and low earth asteroids, we'd be securing our country's future for sure.
You sure love that mining the moon concept don't you?
How exactly would we bring the minerals back to Earth? And how much of it per trip? Asteroids would be even harder. Musk may be your man, but he wants to go to Mars. I would personally love to see a live SLS launch.
New article blasting Musk:
Shooting a Tesla into orbit: A slap in the face to real science
Musk could have used his wealth and fame to aid real space science. Instead, he sent up a monument to his huge ego
"This is basically the criticism a lot of scientists have" of the Tesla launch, said Jill Scudder, a physics professor at Oberlin College who publishes a science outreach blog called Astroquizzical. "Why not send a whole fleet of CubeSats [small cubical satellites] or something?"
Musk could have reached out to the scientific community to put something of scientific or educational value on the Falcon Heavy rocket, but didn’t. NASA confirmed as much in a comment to a GeekWire reporter. Or Musk and company could have sent a few kids' science experiments along in the passenger seat; they sent an advertisement for aunion-busting billionaire's car company instead.
There is another, more intriguing question swirling around SpaceX's launch, one that speaks to a deeper enmity towards science: Was the Tesla sterilized prior to launch? Spreading living organisms around the solar system unintentionally is a huge risk that every space agency on Earth attempts to avoid at all costs. Both Scudder and Jason Davis (writing in the Planetary Society's blog) have expressed concerns about this. "That worries me about the car," Scudder told Salon.
https://www.salon.com/2018/02/12/why-sending-a-tesla-into-orbit-is-a-slap-in-the-face-to-science/
who cares whos a fan of what. As long as our space program gets the fuck back on its feet. If we got mining the moon and low earth asteroids, we'd be securing our country's future for sure
What about the military for fuck's sake?! Expecting the DoD to get by on $685+ billion a year. Preposterous.
Fuck, i forgot! We better increase that for another 100B, just to be secure
But its his money his rocket so his racket.
The 2019 FY request has the Department of Defense being appropriated a budget that is more than 34 times the size of NASA.
It really is an appalling state of affairs, and I think it was you that was pretty livid when I posted how extensive the planned cuts for STEM were across every science-based department, agency and institute. The 2019 FY request has the Department of Defense being appropriated a budget that is more than 34 times the size of NASA.
lol did you see nasa budget request? it was 19.8B lol thats litterally nothing.
Yeah, I tend to stay well on top of the funding for federal science as it pertains to NASA (Aeronatics & Space), NIH (Institutes of Health), NOAA (Oceans & Atmosphere), NIST (Standards of Technology), NSF (Science Foundation), USGS (Geological Survey) and DOE Science (Dept of Energy). These belong to and represent the American public to the world. Everyone knows NASA but the NIH is probably equally important and receives a larger sum as its the foremost biomedical research entity in the world.
The ~$20 billion budget of course has to be split between four major directorates within NASA: Science (which covers earth, planetary and astrophysics), Exploration & Operations (ISS funding and SLS development), Space Technology and Aeronautics. I've always felt space tech has been a criminally underfunded division as it often leads to products and processes that make their way into improving our everyday lives.
i would have asked for a 40b budget or hell even a 60B. That would be more than enough to fund a lunar base and so on.