TMetzinger
Final Approach
If you cheer when Burt Rutan calls NASA "Nay-Say", this one's for you:
http://www.xkcd.com/1074/
http://www.xkcd.com/1074/
Ask me about crop circles.
What about crop circles?
It's a Light Sport UFO.His other plane is a UFO.
The absolute funniest thing about conspiracy theories is that those who trumpet them the loudest trumpet in equal measures the fact the the government can't do anything right (like keep giant conspiracies secret).
The absolute funniest thing about conspiracy theories is that those who trumpet them the loudest trumpet in equal measures the fact the the government can't do anything right (like keep giant conspiracies secret).
We know that they are hoaxes - right? But why would someone do that?What about crop circles?
No, VH for a UFO is higher than 120 knots, and, of course, they don't have reciprocating engines. So, sadly, they don't qualify.It's a Light Sport UFO.
We know that they are hoaxes - right? But why would someone do that?
Remember the big deal about the "War of the Worlds" broadcast in 1938? That was the government (who was aware that the Nazi's were working on UFO technology) testing the public reaction to contact with space aliens.
Once the government realized how the public would panic - and once they made contact with space aliens (using the captured Nazi technology) they had people make the crop circles to help adapt the public to the concept of contact with aliens.
So, the fact that the crop circles were fake is just more proof that NASA does indeed possess UFO technology and space aliens do exist.
But don't they have extra allowances for their ability to hover AND break the speed of light?No, VH for a UFO is higher than 120 knots, and, of course, they don't have reciprocating engines. So, sadly, they don't qualify.
If you cheer when Burt Rutan calls NASA "Nay-Say", this one's for you:
http://www.xkcd.com/1074/
Ouch.
I'd have thought NASA had some nice accomplishments outside manned spaceflight (Voyager, Mars rovers, Hubble/Spitzer/Chandra/Compton, etc.).
But, ouch.
That's just what they WANT you to think. The conspiracy theorists are PAID to be wacked-out nutjobs to discredit the stories, it's all part of the disinformation campaign.The absolute funniest thing about conspiracy theories is that those who trumpet them the loudest trumpet in equal measures the fact the the government can't do anything right (like keep giant conspiracies secret).
Pretty lame attack on NASA, if you ask me. Not that they are above criticism, far from it. But while the Apollo program might have been the greatest, in terms of sheer pizazz, their other stuff has been pretty great, too, for the most part. For example, there are two man-made objects about to become the first such things to effectively leave our star system. They were launched about 40 years ago, and are still operational, sending data home and responding to commands. NASA deserves to be proud of that, even if the sort-of-silly golden phonograph discs aboard never fall into alien hands and are deciphered (that stuff was more a "why not?" thing than a primary purpose of these spacecraft).If you cheer when Burt Rutan calls NASA "Nay-Say", this one's for you:
http://www.xkcd.com/1074/
Now I did.Did you read the mouseover (text that pops up when you hover over the cartoon)?
Did you read the mouseover (text that pops up when you hover over the cartoon)?
That was all just a line of BS NASA fed Congress to get the funding. WIN!! :wink2:Rottydaddy, unfortunately, I don't see much success for the shuttle program. It failed almost all of its goals. It was supposed to be cheap, reliable, and routine. It was none of those.
Unless something has happened to it that I haven't heard about, New Horizons is on its way and set to perform a flyby sometime in 2015. Should be interesting... and hopefully yet another success to add to NASA's list of achievements.FWIW, there has never been any Pluto flyby, but IAU doesn't consider that a planet anymore anyway. But NASA has had multiple "visits," including from us. Unfortunately, all from Earth or Earth orbit. Ours was from the middle of the equatorial Pacific. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/SOFIA/11-21.html
Awww. The link doesn't even work anymore. Not for me anyway."Ok, so Spirit and Opportunity are pretty awesome. And Kepler. And New Horizons, Cassini, Curiosity, TiME, and Project M. But c'mon, if the Earth were a basketball, in 40 years no human's been more than half an inch from the surface."
--Carlos V.
Awww. The link doesn't even work anymore. Not for me anyway.
Yes I know, I was able to bring it up earlier. Now though, the comic doesn't display at all, just a page full of links, most of which either do nothing or expand to show other links that do nothing.
No, it was clearly more than that. One of the major causes of the Challenger accident was excessive pushing to get the schedule more frequent. At the time, NASA was trying to get monthly launches, with further increases in frequency planned.That was all just a line of BS NASA fed Congress to get the funding. WIN!! :wink2:
Cost is not driven significantly by reusability. The main effect of such is to lower capability -- the shuttle orbiter had to haul wings to orbit, that were useless until reentry. This is weight that could have been used for other things.Soyuz has changed very little since it was first put into use; even with disposable components it must be cheaper.
You don't really believe that, do you? It was a JOKE. Astronauts routinely use pencils, and always have.NASA has always been keen on "reinventing the wheel"... the classic example is the development of the zero-gee ballpoint pen. Pretty cool, but the Russians never stopped using pencils, and they are perfectly happy with that.
NASA has always been keen on "reinventing the wheel"... the classic example is the development of the zero-gee ballpoint pen. Pretty cool, but the Russians never stopped using pencils, and they are perfectly happy with that.
... NASA has always been keen on "reinventing the wheel"... the classic example is the development of the zero-gee ballpoint pen. Pretty cool, but the Russians never stopped using pencils, and they are perfectly happy with that.