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The NASA bill is being debated RIGHT NOW
heres a video feed
http://houselive.gov/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&event_id=2

>> No.1823541
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ3_6pcdGuU

>> No.1823551

But there is a black lady talking!

>> No.1823584

looks like its gonna pass

>> No.1823621

Not OP here: What is /sci/'s opinion on the bill? Like it/ DIslike it?

>> No.1823629

>>1823621
Like

>> No.1823644

BUMP THIS FOR JUSTICE!

>> No.1823651

I want to punch this bitch talking right now

>> No.1823663

She can barely even pronounce words.

She's obviously very nervous.

Maybe it's because she knows she's lying through her goddamn teeth.

>> No.1823684

WHO GIVES A SHIT ABOUT MINORITIES

>> No.1823688

So what's the bill do?

>> No.1823695

>>1823688
Sends all black people to the sun

>> No.1823705

BILL WAS FUCKING PASSED

FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!!

>> No.1823707

>>1823705
>>1823705
>>1823705
>>1823705
>>1823705
>>1823705
>>1823705
i'm going to space.
>>1823705
>>1823705
>>1823705

>> No.1823712

You better not be shitting me.

>> No.1823713

>>1823695
That nigger on the top seems pretty calm.

>> No.1823714

What's this about?

>> No.1823718

gosh those chairs look comfy

>> No.1823716

FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!!

>> No.1823723

This bil is only a blueprint for NASA spending, not an allocationof funds.

>> No.1823724

>>1823705
FUCK YEAR

youtube.com/watch?v=Ai6pZ8nAf40#t=5m55s

>> No.1823725

Is this how the States really do business? Jesus....

>> No.1823729

>>1823725
Lol

>> No.1823730

FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!! FUCK YEAH!!!

>> No.1823733

>>1823725
MERKUH!!

>> No.1823765
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>>1823725
I don't see your shitty country with a Mars project.

>> No.1823768

Oh good Sagan, you people better not be shitting me.

It passed? Oh /sci/, yes, thank you, thank you so much.

>> No.1823772

CURRENT HOUSE FLOOR PROCEEDINGS
LEGISLATIVE DAY OF SEPTEMBER 29, 2010
111TH CONGRESS - SECOND SESSION

9:43 P.M. -
Mr. Arcuri filed a report from the Committee on Rules on H. Res. 1682.

S. 3729:
to authorize the programs of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for fiscal years 2011 through 2013, and for other purposes

9:41 P.M. -
At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.

8:58 P.M. -
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on S. 3729.
Considered under suspension of the rules.

Mr. Gordon (TN) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
NSS emphatically requested that the House of Representatives adopt the Senate version of the NASA Authorization Act of 2010 and commends the House of Representatives for having done so.

The three year authorization demonstrates a bipartisan bicameral cooperative effort to provide a framework for engaging the Executive Branch in a comprehensive dialog on the future of NASA. There is much work still to be done to bring forward and pass an Appropriations Bill for 2011 but this is a major victory.

More details to follow

>> No.1823774

This calls for a fucking science party, here's some fucking music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSykJIEiLuA&feature=related

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FUCK YEAH!!!

>> No.1823803

Have they recorded it? Can I watch it later? I'm on another computer.

>> No.1823808

Best legislation of the 21st century!

>> No.1823817

>>1823803
http://houselive.gov/

it will be archived after the house closes for the night

>> No.1823821

>>1823817

Okay then, I will watch it tomorrow, thank you.

Now if you'll excuse me I have to go back to studying, I'd stay for the SCIENCE PARTY but chemistry tests are more important.

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>> No.1823832

YAY!

>> No.1823838

Can someone explain to a /sci/-lite fag what this means?

>> No.1823848

>>1823838
Humans are far more likely to go beyond low earth orbit

TO SPACE!!!!

>> No.1823849
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>>1823725
This is the way a lot of countries do politics.

The Canadian House of Commons has a giant ceremonial mace, officially, for representing authority or somesuch, unofficially, we all know it's for the speaker of the house/sergeant-at-arms to bash people's faces in if they ever get unruly.

>> No.1823851

>>1823848
A little bit more specific sirrah. I'm /sci/-lite not stupid.

>> No.1823854

WAIT GUYS?

DOES THIS MEAN THE US WILL FINALLY HAVE A SPACE PROGRAM? DAMN, I WAS WONDERING WHEN WE'D START HAVING A FUCKING SPACE PROGRAM!

>> No.1823858

>>1823849
I love you for this post.

^_^

>> No.1823859

>>1823838
It means commercial spaceflight gets funding from NASA.

e.g. NASA will have enough money to buy SpaceX launches, etc. for the interim. Meanwhile...

It also means the old constellation program is effectively dead, and a new heavy lift vehicle will be designed alternatively.

It means that instead of taking another 50 year backwards step with spaceflight, we might actually see some fucking progress in the next decade or two.

>> No.1823861

I wish Carl were here :(

>> No.1823863

>>1823859
Any links so I can read up on this?

>> No.1823871

wait guys

fuck the vote has been put off until late tonight

but 6/7 are in favor of it

>> No.1823872

>>1823772

Does this mean that they're finally going to get off their asses and build a moon colony and send us to Mars?

>> No.1823874

>>1823817
Where are the archives?

>> No.1823877

The speaker pro tem declared at the end of the debate that the yeas had won the voice vote, but after a bit of an awkward pause, Giffords formally requested a recorded (roll call) vote. That will take place later tonight; perhaps much later, as the House is now moving on to debate the continuing resolution to fund the government after Thursday. The vote will take place tonight, though, as Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced this evening that the House will adjourn after tonight’s votes until November 15th, after the mid-term elections. Note that under suspension of the rules the bill will need a two-thirds majority to pass.

>> No.1823892

Anyone else find it fucked up that microsoft gets a bump from the official house of representatives feed. No I do not want to download silverlight

>> No.1823900

>>1823877
woah woah woah woah... you're saying there's a chance it didn't pass??????

>> No.1823904

>>1823892

This. Fuck, I'm using father's computer, of course it doesn't have Silverlight. Fucking Microsoft, and fuck the House of Representatives for forcing their .net bullshit.

>> No.1823914

>>1823900
Kinda

The vote has been postponed to late tonight

But everyone who spoke was in favor of the bill

Except that one bitch

>> No.1823926

>>1823914
Oh god I know... what was up with that cunt? I mean... fuck the Republicans were talking about a secret Obama conspiracy to destroy NASA and even THEY supported the Senate bill

>> No.1823946

Does anyone have a copy of this bill? I would really like to see it and I cant find it anywhere. I saw a general description on a site and they said one of the points was to train teachers. If this is for mandatory higher math classes. I think that is stupid waste of money. Most kids dont need that shit. It should just be an option for those who want it.

>> No.1823952

>>1823946
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s111-3729

>> No.1823970
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People people people PEOPLE
Fuck the US government, why do you bother waiting for funding from them?

Everyone knows that science is not a public Good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnsLFVGOU4Y

The X-Prize Foundation has done more than any government for furthering the human race.
>Public Space Flight
>Sustainability
>prizes and conferences for almost everything else
http://thegeck.blogspot.com/2010/09/technology-of-2010-x-prize-foundation.html

yeah read and weep, you politician bootlicking noobs. donate to X-Prize and u will ahve cybernetic bodies and infinate power.

>> No.1823985

>>1823872
No Mars.

Asteroid missions and then the Moon.

The logical and correct way to do it. Mars is pie-in-sky bullcrap right now. We can do that stuff when we've got infrastructure in place and it makes sense.

Going to mars right now would just be a waste of time and money. Everyone will get excited, we'll land there at the cost of billions, maybe trillions. Take some soil samples, and then have a party and come back to earth, and then nothing for another 50 years.

This bill proposal is taking actual strides to developing our infrastructure - asteroid mining, spacecraft development and construction in space, habitat construction in space, habitat construction on the moon, endorsement of commercial spaceflight endeavors, and so on.

Honestly, what does Mars even offer us that the Moon doesn't right now? It's just further away and harder to lift off of, and might have life - but it's not like we need people there to find out at the cost of hundreds of billions when we can send a few rovers for hundreds of millions.

>> No.1824008

>>1823970
> The X-Prize Foundation has done more than any government for furthering the human race.

That is the stupidest thing I've read today. Couldn't you at least be like "They've really done a lot which is good" or "they are a great alternative" - did you have to go full on retard?

>> No.1824009

>>1823859
LMAO. It means the US space program is over and all the money goes instead to amateur rocketry.

>> No.1824021

WTF??
SEC. 1206. COUNTERFEIT PARTS.
(a) In General- The Administrator shall plan, develop, and implement a program, in coordination with other Federal agencies, to detect, track, catalog, and reduce the number of counterfeit electronic parts in the NASA supply chain.

>> No.1824031

>>1823872
No, it means they just canceled the moon colony.

>> No.1824058

>>1824031
The Moon colony was effectively canceled years ago. Even if Constellation continued the best we'd get from it is a repeat of the Apollo sorties... twenty years from now.

>> No.1824070

>>1823970
Maximum Trolling.

But still makes a good point. Xprize is pretty rad.

>> No.1824068

>>1823985
Protection from a GRB.

>> No.1824078

I really don't want a fucking cell phone company to hold all the patents this shit.

>> No.1824165

>>1824078
Then work to abolishing patents.

While you're at it, destroy copyrights too.

>> No.1824307

Ok now its official passed

(Washington, DC -- September 29, 2010) -- Formal Vote Completed

NSS emphatically requested that the House of Representatives adopt the

Senate version of the NASA Authorization Act of 2010

and commends the House of Representatives for having done so.

The three year authorization demonstrates a bipartisan bicameral cooperative effort to provide a framework for engaging the Executive Branch in a comprehensive dialog on the future of NASA.

There is much work still to be done to bring forward and pass an Appropriations Bill for 2011 but this is a major victory.

More details to follow.

>> No.1824309

>>1824307
This is good right?

>> No.1824314

IT'S OFFICIAL!
http://www.americaspace.org/?p=4306

304 in favor, 118 opposed, the bill is passed!

YEEEAAAHHH!

>> No.1824320

Yay! (again )

now sleep.

Thanks for the late night politic watch /sci/

>> No.1824327

laymans terms for this bill please!

>> No.1824345

>>1824327
Continues ISS through 2020
Extra shuttle mission in 2011
Drops Ares I for new HLV, likely keeps Orion
New tech programs
Develops commercial spaceflight industry


I'd like to take a moment to personally thank, from the bottom of my heart, everyone who pitched in and called/wrote their Reps these last couple weeks.

VICTORY!!!

>> No.1824368

>>1823985
OH YES.
Asteroid mining and space construction! Could this mean that we'll finally have an efficient means of constructing large constructions which we have not been able to construe means for to leave the planet? Beginning constructions of space colonies? What useful things can we expect to be obtaining in the near future with this bill? DETAILS

>> No.1824372

>>1824345
That sounds sexy but what does it mean?
People will be hopping to space for a vacation in twenty years?

>> No.1824392

Found the roll call, post how your congressman voted.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2010/roll561.xml

Loebsack D-IA - YEA!

>> No.1824404

Forbes voted Yes
YEAH!

>> No.1824425

Canadafag here.

GL on NASA, and may Canadians one day be strong enough to compete at your level.

Until then, keep taking our free-trade resources where we lose money and braindraining our top talent for this project.

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>> No.1825598

Bump, Shouldn't you guys be more excited?

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>>1825598
>not a direct mission to Mars by 2020

>> No.1825735

>>1825598

just got the news yes I'm excited.

>> No.1825853

my faith in humanity has not dwindled, I am glad

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This calls for a celebration ham

>> No.1826669

>>1825598
Its a bitter sweet feeling. Sure it's great that shits happening but by the time commoners will be able to experience space, I'll probably be an old shit. I'm 20 years old right now by the way.

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OHFUCKYES
CONGRATS AMERICUNTS. WE'RE PROUD OF YOU.

>> No.1826796

>>1826669
Within 20 years a trip to LEO will be about as expensive as a trip to Disneyworld... still very expensive but affordable to the average American if you save up.

Cheer up :)

>> No.1826815

>>1823520
Anyone care to explain why the bill passing was a big deal or how this affects people for the next 10-20 years?

>> No.1826835

>>1826815
It doesn't do much, something about going to an asteroid... you know instead of fixing the no gravity in outer space problem yet again.

>> No.1826837

The NASA bill doesn't need to be passed, let some private agency lead the way into space, not American tax dollars

>> No.1826847

>>1824425
Canucks truly are absolutely retarded. Maybe it's because all hockey damaged their brains and fucked up all their teeth to look like inbreds but fuck... It's like NORAD and NASA never existed. Also the hockey stick up your arses, you really need to fuck off.

>> No.1826855

>>1826837
I want this too. Eurofags are so worthless... The least they can do i actually give private corporations money to waste on going to lifeless rocks.

Europe, you fucking suck. Except Russia.

>> No.1826867

Now we just need to talk our leaders into letting us go here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1316538/Gliese-581g-mystery-Scientist-spotted-mysteri
ous-pulse-light-direction-newEarth-planet-year.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

>> No.1826897

Americunts dont forget who made you, europe fetus ftw

>> No.1826908

>>1826669
Radical Life extension anyone?
http://www.manhattanbeachproject.com/
Aim to end aging by 2029 Surely being 39 won't make you that old

>> No.1828071

Bump for more explanation.

>> No.1828080

>>1826908

I don't even have to look at the link. Ending ageing by 2029 is utterly ridiculous. Why don't we just end disease whilst we're at it.

>> No.1829113

>>1828080
A part of ending aging will be removing diseases.
We should have nanobots by 2030s so its not that ridiculous you know.
Stop being such a Nihilist

>> No.1829198

>>1829113

People who rely on living for ever are just unable to adapt to atheism and replace the concepts of immortality via spirituality with immortality via science.

You will die, deal with it.

>> No.1829286

>>1829198
Yes maybe one day. However when the time goes and the singularity hits. Our advanced minds will perceive time much slower, As they are able to Intemperate the world at an alarming rate.
So it won't be for a very long time, And maybe until the heat death.
However, Theres still a chance we can avoid that too.