Congress Approves Bill for NASA's New Space Plan

[Anonymous No.1825793]

>Congress passed a vital NASA authorization bill late Wednesday (Sept. 29), paving the way for an extra space shuttle flight next year and a new human spaceflight plan that takes aim at missions to an asteroid and Mars.

>The NASA authorization bill approved by the House includes a $19 billion budget in 2011 for the U.S. space agency, and a total of $58 billion through 2013. It paves the way for several NASA projects, among them a new heavy-lift rocket for deep space missions and funding to aid the development of commercial space vehicles for eventual NASA use.


WE DID IT.

GOOD JOB /SCI/.

FUCK YEAH!

FUCK YOU BOEING.

FUCK YOU FOX NEWS.

FUCK YOU REPUBLICANS.

SUCK IT HARD.

[Anonymous No.1825796]

retart

[Anonymous No.1825798]

http://www.space.com/news/nasa-bill-passes-house-vote-100929.html

>just as planned.

[Anonymous No.1825799]

I lost my heart to a starship trooper
Flashing light in hyperspace
Fighting for the Federation
Hand in hand we'll conquer space!

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.1825803]

>paving the way for an extra space shuttle flight next year and a new human spaceflight plan that takes aim at missions to an asteroid and Mars.

YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS

[Anonymous No.1825804]

>my face when NASA has been saved

[Anonymous No.1825806]

excelente me amegos.

[Anonymous No.1825809]

>mfw we explore the space only to realize it's totally empty and dull.

[Anonymous No.1825812]

>>1825809

Get fucked. Ever heard of a nebula? A quasar?
Comets? Asteroids?

Fucking crossing lightyears?

[Anonymous No.1825821]

This is the best NASA related news in a long looong time.

I bet there's a ton of gay engineers celebrating at cape canaveral.

They finally get to do some science instead of having a new direction thrown at them every 4 years.

[Anonymous No.1825824]

>The House opted to vote on the Senate's NASA authorization bill after running out of time on a compromise version proposed by Congressman Bart Gordon (R-Tennessee) last week. The fiscal year ends Thursday (Sept. 30).
Finally the ineptitude of our government pays off

[Anonymous No.1825827]

>Obama confirmed for god tier political tactician.

[Anonymous No.1825828]

>>1825793
What does this have to do with Republicans? Why are you happy that we're going to be sitting on our asses while the Chinese and Russions build the first moon base?

[Anonymous No.1825830]

[Anonymous No.1825834]

This was a triumph.
I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction...

[Anonymous No.1825840]

>>1825828

The bill has passed.

I no longer give a fuck about you and your republican friends trying to derail it.

Suck my dick constellationfag.

[Anonymous No.1825842]

That's great news!
It would have been horrible to see those $58 billion wasted in some stupid shit like educating and feeding children, finding the cure for deadly diseases and other dull crap which is not as cool as landing a rocket on a floating piece of rock a million miles away from here

[Anonymous No.1825844]

>>1825821

No need to say 'gay' engineers. It's redundant.

[Anonymous No.1825856]

>>1825842
>Throwing money at a problem guarantees its solution

You a liberal or something? We're finally getting a GOOD Space Bill. Fuck off.

[Anonymous No.1825857]

>>1825842
>Implying it's the government's business to feed 3rd world counties
>Implying throwing money at educations fixes anything
>Implying we aren't already spending a fuckton of money on medical research

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.1825858]

>>1825842
Watch this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8bIQLiKi3g

[Anonymous No.1825867]

>>1825828
>What does this have to do with Republicans?

Nothing, but libtards have to include a jab at the republican party in everything they write, even if it's totally unrelated or just false.

NASA has received the most support from Republican presidencies than Democrats, all the best achievements like the Moon Landing and the Shuttle were supported by Republican presidents. But of course, facts mean nothing for Obamafags, they are too busy worshiping their idol to look around and notice the real world.

[Anonymous No.1825874]

>>1825856
>Throwing money at a problem guarantees its solution

of course not, it's much more practical to throw it out into space

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.1825876]

>>1825867
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy
>Political party Democratic
And I believe Nixon fucked the space program soon after.

[Anonymous No.1825877]

ITT: delusional republicans

[Anonymous No.1825879]

>>1825840
Why are you so happy about derailing the american moon effort? If you have some vested interest in a private space company, then fuck you. You are scum.

[Anonymous No.1825880]

>Implying it's the government's business to feed 3rd world counties

implying there are not starving children in our own country

Also, you seem to have a double standard here.
If money is spent in NASA it is useful, but when it's spent in other issues is just "throwing money at"?

[Anonymous No.1825883]

>>1825877
again, what does any of this have to do with republicans? It seems like republicans would be the ones to disassemble the public program and distribute all the funds to private space agency. Is this not so?

[Anonymous No.1825890]

>>1825876
>And I believe Nixon fucked the space program soon after.
>And I believe
>believe

Actually, most of the moon landings happened during the Nixon administration.

LRN2FACTS

[Anonymous No.1825896]

>>1825880
First of all, no, there aren't many starving children in the USA, and for those that are, throwing money won't help one bit.
Also, spending money in a space program isn't wastefull because, you know, aside from the fact that spaceships cost a lot, they can actually do vast improvements with extra money and.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.1825897]

>>1825890
Still, a democrat president started it.

[Anonymous No.1825902]

>>1825883
>again, what does any of this have to do with republicans?

Liberals have to include a republican-hating statement in every sentence, no matter how unrelated. It's like their sacred rule number one.

They are like "Remind me to buy a gallon of milk, Bush is evil, and some hot dog buns"

[Anonymous No.1825903]

>>1825897
And he's rolling in his grave at the ending of the US space program today.

[Anonymous No.1825909]

this is exciting.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.1825912]

>>1825902

[Anonymous No.1825916]

>>1825909
Why is this exciting? Please explain. Do you work for one of th private space companies?

[Anonymous No.1825918]

>>1825896
>First of all, no, there aren't many starving children in the USA,

You obviously never wandered too far away from your middle-class suburban environment.

>and for those that are, throwing money won't help one bit.

Again, you keep saying "throwing money" for some reason. Like helping families in need was done by blowing dollar bills out of a truck or something.

[Anonymous No.1825923]

>>1825879

>IMPLYING THE REPUBLICANS AREN'T WHOLLY IN THE POCKET OF BOEINGS SPACE DIVISION.

>IMPLYING BOEING DIDN'T FUCK AROUND FOR 10 YEARS BUILDING ITS SHITTY ROCKET WHICH BARELY WORKED, AND STILL WASN'T READY TO LAUNCH UNTIL AT LEAST 2020. 20 YEARS OF FUCKING DEVELOPMENT FOR A ROCKET

>IMPLYING THERE IS MONEY TO MAKE ON THE MOON

>IMPLYING ALL THE MONEY IS NOT IN MINING THE FUCK OUT OF ASTEROIDS

>IMPLYING IT IS NOT OF THE UPMOST PRIORITY TO LEARN HOW TO DO DEEP SPACE MANNED MISSIONS LIKE THE ASTEROID MISSION OBAMA HAS ASKED FOR AND GOT

>IMPLYING SENDING MEN TO MARS IS NOT GOING TO PRODUCE MORE TECHNOLOGY THAN SENDING MEN TO THE MOON AGAIN

>IMPLYING OBAMA DIDN'T MAKE THE BEST NASA CHOICE OF ANY PRESIDENT SINCE LINDON JOHNSON.

>IMPLYING THIS BILL DOESN'T VASTLY IMPROVE SUPPORT FOR TECHNOLOGIES SUCH AS VASIMR AND ALL SORTS OF DEVELOPMENT THAT WE BADLY NEED

>IMPLYING THE RUSSIANS AREN'T SHITTING THEIR PANTS NOW THAT SPACE X IS GOING TO SUCCEED AND WILL LAUNCH CARGO INTO SPACE FOR FAR CHEAPER THAN THEY CAN.

>IMPLYING THIS ISN'T A HUGE WIN FOR THE AMERICAN SPACE PROGRAM

>IMPLYING YOU'RE NOT A FUCKING FAGGOT WHO KNOWS JACK SHIT ABOUT ANYTHING

[Anonymous No.1825927]

>>1825923
GTFO out of sci you technologically illiterate brainwashed scum.

[Anonymous No.1825932]

>>1825923
Anyone who things we should be going somewhere other than the moon is mentally incompetent.

[Anonymous No.1825949]

Gonna tell Aunt Mary 'bout Uncle John,
he claims he has the misery but he has a lotta fun.
Oh baby,
ye-e-e-eh baby,
woo-o-o-oh baby,
havin' me some fun tonight.

Well, long tall Sally she's
built for speed, she got
everything that Uncle John need
Oh baby,
ye-e-e-eh baby,
woo-o-o-oh baby,
havin' me some fun tonight.
Well, I saw Uncle John with long tall Sally.
He saw Aunt mary comin' and he ducked back in the alley.
Oh baby,
ye-e-e-eh baby,
woo-o-o-oh baby,
havin' me some fun tonight.

We're gonna have some fun tonight,
gonna have some fun tonight.
We're gonna have some fun tonight,
everything will be alright.
We're gonna have some fun,
gonna have some fun tonight.
We're gonna have some fun tonight,
gonna have some fun tonight.
We're gonna have some fun tonight,
everything will be alright.
We're gonna have some fun,
gonna have some fun tonight.

[Anonymous No.1825950]

There's a whole planet here we cannot even manage to take care of. Because of these tendencies, soon the space around the Earth will be so cluttered with garbage that launching spacecraft will be dangerous due to high-speed debris. People are starving here because the world economy is still extremely fragile and, to personify a bit, capricious.

There's no food in space and we haven't proven we can even be responsible for one continent, nevermind one planet and certainly not one solar system.

Fuck you all, spacefags. You're the cancer killing the universe.

[Anonymous No.1825952]

>>1825927
>>1825932


U MAD CAUSE AMERICAN SUPER SCIENCE WON TODAY?

U FUCKING MAD?

[Anonymous No.1825956]

>>1825952
Niggers always trying to keep the white man down.

[nerva No.1825958]

>>1825793
more democrats were against the bill then republicans

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2010/roll561.xml#Y

[Anonymous No.1825966]

>>1825952
Yes, I'm mad that American science lost today. And in the future when we watch man walking on the moon or other bodies, they will be russians or chinese ro even indians, and what used to be called the "1st world" will be a distant memory.

[Anonymous No.1825968]

>>1825958


>IMPLYING I GIVE A FUCK ABOUT BLUE DOG DEMOCRATS

>IMPLYING THINGS

[Anonymous No.1825972]

>>1825950
You are right we've done poorly as a species here on earth. But time is limited for all life on earth - and right now the best bet to survive the eventual collision with a asteroid - is to add additional planets which life exists on.

We may be polluters on the order of destroying 40% of all life forms on earth (presuming most higher organisms will eventually perish due to us.) But a single asteroid can do much worse, and beyond that the sun eventually will expire taking anything here with it. It is important to colonize space not just for ourselves but for all life.

[Anonymous No.1825974]

>>1825966

lol the russians aren't allowed to land on the moon? they were there before we were.

and lol @ china. they can barely put a man in orbit. they are at least 50 years away from doing anything significant.

and the russian space program is broke. enjoy trying to colonize the moon with a 2.4 billion dollar budget.

also, i'll be laughing at the russians on the moon while we're playing golf on the surface of the red planet and missing an asteroid that is worth trillions of dollars.

[Anonymous No.1825994]

>>1825974

typical brainwashed elusional american, the bright american space program years are long gone

[Anonymous No.1825996]

>>1825974

>*mining
>not missing


trolololol

[Anonymous No.1826000]

>>1825994

>my sentiment when not a single fuck was given about what you think

[nerva No.1826004]

>>1825994
instead of insults how about you logicaly refute him

[Anonymous No.1826023]

>>1825972
cool manifest destiny bro

[Anonymous No.1826026]

If democraps and libtards actually bothered to look then they'd know that this had republican backing.

Fucking retarded bleeding heart libtards and demoshits always caring about worthless poor niggers.

Most of us are middle class or upper middle class. I'm rich, why should science be held back like the retarded poorfag niggers in school? They already destroyed our educational system by dumbing it down to appeal to them.

[Anonymous No.1826029]

So many Obongotard cock sucking Americunts in here. Enjoy your patriot act, idiots.

[Anonymous No.1826030]

ITT: Libshits are too retarded to know that the democrats of the past are the republicans today.

[Anonymous No.1826031]

>>1826004
>>1825994

I disagree with your assessment of the situation - I think we have the opportunity to surpass the previous golden age, I think we can do it and that we will do it, because we must - we can not think that landing on the moon was the end of our society's adventures in space. We must push on and commit ourselves to greater things; asteroids, Mars, doing that thing with Phobos maybe.

The last 30 years have been equal parts grim and mundane - but they have positioned the technology for the next step. In the next 30 years we must take that step - and when that step is the first touchdown on Mars, then we will have our new golden age.

[Anonymous No.1826039]

>>1826026
>Most of us are middle class or upper middle class. I'm rich, why should science be held back like the retarded poorfag niggers in school?

Because grievously unequal societies often end in violent and non-science related revolutions? That by ensuring basic equality you can extend the expiration date on our civilization - hopefully long enough to get us off this rock?

[Anonymous No.1826040]

And how the fuck does this make up for the mission to Mars your nigger president fucked up, USAfags?

[Anonymous No.1826043]

>mfw liberal idiots near me

[Anonymous No.1826047]

WHY DON'T WE JUST TAKE SOME OF THE MONEY FROM OUR MASSIVELY HUGE DEFENSE BUDGET, AND PUT IT INTO EDUCATION? WIN-WIN?

Why can't we have both?

[Anonymous No.1826050]

>>1826047

BECAUSE THERE'S BROWN PEOPLE THAT DESPERATELY NEED TO BE BOMBED

[Anonymous No.1826051]

>>1826047
for a minute I thought none would mention that

[Anonymous No.1826052]

>>1826050
Oh, yeah, that....

;_;

[Anonymous No.1826074]

Unlike you stupid trailer trash and niggers me and my parents actually finished college and worked hard enough to be moderately wealthy. Hell, I even told them i didn't want a fund and worked to pay off college myself for fun (I got a scholarship anyway but I still have to pay for books). Being poor isn't an excuse, it's a choice. There's no way anyone educated in this country can fail below upper middle class, it's not possible. More science now and fuck poor people. If you wanted something like socialized health care then fucking move to Canada. This country should only be for the successful and intelligent. The scientists and greatest minds in the world flock here for a reason, but you poorfags, niggers, rednecks, whatever all ruin it. Fucking die in Canada.

[Anonymous No.1826076]

>>1826047


It depends on which parts of the military you want to cut out off.

Because they make a great deal of advanced technology like SCRAM jets and Polywell reactors.

The US Air Force launches cargo into space 1 or 2 times every two months, and even has a space plane in orbit right now.

They help give America a huge edge in research and development.

[Anonymous No.1826082]

>poor people
>on 4chan

What? Poor people can't afford internet, can they?

Oh wait, it's just shitty kids with sympathy for druggies who ruin their lives by their own hands.

[Anonymous No.1826085]

>>1826082
yeah being an internet sociopath makes one so cool

[Anonymous No.1826088]

Seriously, why do suburbanite kids always turn into whiny bitchy hipsters or liberal bleeding hearts?

They don't even know shit.

It's just their own personal moral feel good high ground.

Deep down inside, you bet every poor faggot would be just as evil or even more evil as the greediest men.

They all want money but they're too stupid to acquire it.

You see all the crimes committed by the poor?

Making excuses like stealing to feed their family is not a good argument or excuse.

A lot of them MURDER other people for money.

Stealing is not working so purge all those in poverty to advance mankind.

[Anonymous No.1826092]

>fuck poorfags

Fucking agreed.

You know all that shit where hollywood shows rich people as all corrupt, mean, and evil while poor people have love and are kind? It's simply untrue. I find it EXTREMELY ironic that they would paint a picture hurting themselves but I don't even know what the jews in hollywood are doing anymore. It's ridiculous to think rich people have it easier. Old money maybe, but not the new money who deserve it.

[Anonymous No.1826099]

Hold on guys. I care about poor people, but only in other countries. I have to concur that being poor in this country with all the opportunities present is absolutely ludicrous. You have to realize there are hundreds of millions and maybe billions living on less than a dollar a day. Nobody in the USA, Canada, or western Europe should be poor though. They really are worthless dumb lazy scum, I agree.

[Anonymous No.1826114]

Poor people suck, my friends.
But the liberals are worse.
They need their moral high ground while the majority of them live in comfortable middle class suburbs closed off from the real world and the scourge known at the poorshits.
The liberals and the poor must make those of us who deserve what we've worked for feel sorry and bad for them for not having much money they could have earned .
They somehow feel we would be equal and brought to their level if they did that.
They WISH they were us, they WANT to abandon the poorshits around them, they'll be the WORST kind of rich people if they do.
Worse is that they feel entitled to YOUR money that YOU worked for and for bum fucking nothing at that.

[Anonymous No.1826117]

>>1826082
took me forever to wait for a deal on a really cheap laptop, and i use bookstores, libraries, coffeeshops, even neighborhoods etc for free wifi

[Anonymous No.1826121]

>>1826088
> You see all the crimes committed by the poor?

You see all the crimes committed by the rich?

[Anonymous No.1826122]

We should just turn the poor into livestock and eat them. At least they'll finally be useful instead of holding us back. The good scientists and educated are not poor, deal with it.

[Anonymous No.1826124]

Why do poor people always have to ruin everything?

We'd be on Mars a decade ago if it wasn't for them ruining everything.

[Anonymous No.1826129]

>>1826121

No because they can afford to pay people off.

PERFECT SOCIETY, NO CRIME :D

[nerva No.1826146]

Start of thread:FUCK YEAH AMERICA WILL INTO SPACE!!!!!

End of thread:FUCK POOR PEOPLE!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous No.1826152]

Typical amerifag liberals

>put others down for being wealthy, educated, or a certain skin color from one of the "model people" like whites, Indians, and orientals.

Bravo.

[Anonymous No.1826170]

Jesus and whatever Christfaggots tell you to give to the poor. This where being an educated scientist and atheist is superior to faggotry christfaggot bleeding hearts.

[Pârsâ vazraka Haxâmanishah !t4cqDBcM6o No.1826171]

>>1826152
Why is it fair that people born to rich families get more opportunities than poor people? We should take money from the rich people and give it to the poor people to make things more equal?

But why stop there. How is it fair that good looking people get so much more opportunities than ugly people? Or how tall people command so much more respect than short people? Or how some people have such good genetics for health and longevity than people with genes for disease? Or how skinny people are so much more socially acceptable than fat people? Why is it that smart people have such an easier time figuring things out in school than average intelligence people?

We should throw acid in the good looking people's faces, saw the legs off of tall people, inject healthy people with AIDS, and force feed skinny people hamburgers. Then we hit all the smart kids in the head with a bat. Just to make it more equal.

Fuck this natural state of inequality. Fuck people and thier natural advantages. That's not fair! That's not right! Are you with me fellow liberals?

>American liberals are the worst, they ruined the whole meaning of liberty.

[Anonymous No.1826176]

>poor
>people

Pick one.

[Anonymous No.1826181]

We can use the bodies of worthless poorfags as fuel to get to Mars, FUCK YEAH!

[Anonymous No.1826184]

I love you, /sci/.

You finally rekindled by hatred of shitty poverty cunts.

[Pârsâ vazraka Haxâmanishah !t4cqDBcM6o No.1826188]

>>1826181
BIOMASS ION FUEL
THE POOR SHALL POWER OUR MIGHTY ENGINES

[Anonymous No.1826191]

Finally, not a religon vs x thread!
Yes, poor people suck. We'd be in utopia right now if it wasn't for their shitty redneck or nigger ignorance and stupidity. I second the suggestion of turning them into fuel.

[Pârsâ vazraka Haxâmanishah !t4cqDBcM6o No.1826197]

>>1826191
Quite true.
I never understood why American liberals like the poor so much.

>Poor people in america

-Violent niggers who make intelligent black men look retarded
-Rednecks
-Full-retard homeless
-General criminals

How is that likable at all? What good qualities do they posses?

[Anonymous No.1826201]

I really hate today's society. Today it's completely and socially unacceptable to hate the poor. Fuck that.

[Anonymous No.1826205]

So lemme get this straight... we actually made something happen?

[Anonymous No.1826209]

>>1826197
free votes from the uneducated

[Anonymous No.1826212]

Counting debt, most of America is poor.

Just to give some context to the assholes in this thread. Corporatists, corporatists everywhere. Enjoy you're faux capitalism.

[Anonymous No.1826214]

Here in Germany, worst is poor eastern european trash leeching off and destroying everything. I wish USA actually nuked it and Russia into oblivion...

[Anonymous No.1826216]

You idiots don't understand. Sure poor people are drains on every society, but they need to exist, not just for the reason that first world countries need unskilled workers to clean garbage/part parts together/whatever, they also cover for when educated people make huge mistakes. Just think, if WWII started and everyone was a well educated working man then do you think there would be a huge ground war? No. There would be bombs / nukes / anything to prevent the smartest from dying. But that would kill everyone. The only sensible thing to do is natural selection sending the criminals, lazy, idiots out to kill each other. The government gets to feel good about themselves and a bunch of retards get taken out of the gene pool.

So we need poor people, just that when they get to critical mass we need to start a draft for everyone (that means women) who never attended college, we need to make a secret pact with another country so that they can do the same, the earth as a whole would improve and there would be just enough people to continue making burgers and cleaning up garbage.

[Pârsâ vazraka Haxâmanishah !t4cqDBcM6o No.1826218]

>>1826212
We aren't talking about workers and the intelligent.

Don't bullshit and say criminals, lazy fucks, and welfare queens deserve respect. I dislike corporatists as much as anyone, but why should I like the retards of humanity who set progress back?

[Anonymous No.1826220]

>>1826216
That's the point. These people are basically nazis. They want someone like Hitler to dominate.

[Pârsâ vazraka Haxâmanishah !t4cqDBcM6o No.1826223]

>>1826220
>dislike poor retards who stop the march of progress and be generally lazy
>HITLER NAZI RACIST EVIL DURRR

Very nice argument you have there.

[Anonymous No.1826227]

Being poor is actually a mental illness.

Seriously, look it up.

They're linked and one in the same.

[Anonymous No.1826230]

I hate poor people too but I want to get back on topic. The senator of my state (a republican) and the republican senators of other states fought agianst Obama's NASA budget cuts. I don't know why these democrat kids are taking all the credit and think everything congress passes is the president's doing.

[Anonymous No.1826231]

>>1826146


i think it's just one troll and a real nazi.

they don't matter.

[Anonymous No.1826278]

>>1826218
I might agree with you, if only I saw evidence that these people are, in fact, holding progress back. So far, no one has presented any.

[Anonymous No.1826578]

>No face when a troll begins a completely unrelated tirade against the poor and helpless among us.
>Good job reinforcing how the richest 1% think of you.

[Anonymous No.1826690]

Hahahaha this thread made me laugh quite heartily. It's just like five conservative republicans fuming in rage and spamming as many angry statements as they can. Partisan bullshit aside, this is a good day for the future of space exploration.

[Anonymous No.1826709]

>>1826223
Not much of an argument you're toting either. The post blatantly advocated eugenics. People seriously don't understand evolution or they choose not to in order to promote their blind retarded unrealistic unnecessary hate rhetoric. You're an enemy of mankind for fucks sake.

[Anonymous No.1826737]

>>1826227
But our insanitariums would be full for decades.

[Anonymous No.1826744]

Lol I just finished reading this thread. Democrats are absolutely retarded alright. They sure as hell take credit for anything science related even though republicans have done more and the republican politicians actually tried to save the space program.

[Anonymous No.1826748]

>FUCK YOU REPUBLICANS

>republicans

>118 nay votes
>64 democrat
>54 republican

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2010-561

[Anonymous No.1826751]

>NASA

Not that it matters, they don't do anything useful

[Anonymous No.1826778]

So many trolls, I don't know where to rage first!

[Anonymous No.1826842]

>>1826748
Nice absolute numbers bro. How about you polish those up and show the proportion of dems versus the proportion of pubbies?

[Anonymous No.1826872]

>>1826842
Nevermind, I'll do it myself. 25% of dems: no. 30% of pubs: no.

fuck republicans

[Anonymous No.1826911]

congrats america, you will now swim into bigger debt and less useful technological advances as you pool your efforts in a fruitless endeavor

no wonder the most useless country in the world supports a useless organization for useless crap

[Anonymous No.1826952]

>>1826872
That's 55% "no" genius. How did it pass?

[Anonymous No.1826964]

>>1826952

You just went full retard, data.

[Anonymous No.1827165]

>>1826911

Yeah, it's so retarded. They're spending money on useless shit like getting to a point where asteroid mining and space-based solar power could be feasible rather than spending it on something useful, like more tanks and research on how to make even faster fighter jets.

[Anonymous No.1827190]

>>1826911
Still jealous much, faggot? Even if this country collapses it and its people will still be among the richest and most powerful countries in the world. Nothing will ever changed that at all.

[Anonymous No.1827204]

>>1826911

oh shit nig wut r u doin

[Anonymous No.1827211]

>>1826911


WHAT ARE YOU DOING

[Anonymous No.1827226]

>>1826911


STOP SAYING THINGS!

>U.S. sits on rare supply of tech-crucial minerals

>Recent USGS figures estimate that the U.S. holds rare earth ore reserves of up to 13 million metric tons. By contrast, the entire world produced just 124,000 metric tons in 2009

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35782773/ns/technology_and_science-science/

[Anonymous No.1827238]

>>1826911


WHY U DO DIS?

[Anonymous No.1827244]

>>1827204

Shit ireland.

Get it together.

[Anonymous No.1827251]

>>1826911

WHHRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

>"The United States is sitting on over 100 years of gas supply at the current rates of consumption," he said. Because natural gas emits half the greenhouse gases of coal, he added, that "provides the United States with a unique opportunity to address concerns about energy security and climate change."

>Recoverable U.S. gas reserves could now be bigger than the immense gas reserves of Russia, some experts say.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/02/AR2009120204305.html


>U.S. is Saudi Arabia of coal

>According to the U.S. Energy Department, the United States has 267.3-billion short tons of coal reserves, or 26.8 percent of the world total.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/jan/25/rudy-giuliani/us-is-saudi-arabia-of-c
oal/

>The U.S. is sitting on the world's largest, untapped oil reserves

>untapped reserves are estimated at about 2.3 trillion barrels, nearly three times more than the reserves held by Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) nations and sufficient to meet 300 years of demand -- at today's levels --

http://www.kiplinger.com/businessresource/forecast/archive/The_U.S._s_Untapped_Bounty_080630.html

[Anonymous No.1827252]

Poor guy here


I'm working my ass off getting into university, astronomy specifically.

I'll enjoy my >80k in dept, but holy fuck I love space.

Totally worth it

[None !caG84MXea2 No.1827254]

>>1827238
>derp guessing 40 years in advance
>herp ignore history

[Anonymous No.1827258]

>>1827251


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[Anonymous No.1827271]

>>1827254


:3

u sad?

[Anonymous No.1827286]

HOORAY MY MATH DEGREE MIGHT MEAN SOMETHING NOW

[Anonymous No.1827319]

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>>1827238
>>1827251

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[Anonymous No.1827331]

U S A U S A U S A

[Anonymous No.1827344]

SAME
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HATERS GONNA HATE

[Anonymous No.1827349]

>.>

[Anonymous No.1827368]

>my youtube video when Canada is our Ace in the hole.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrA4V6YF6SA

[Anonymous No.1827389]

I'M TROLLING /SCIENCE/ AND NO ONE CAN STOP ME

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk1nrgm55gQ

[Anonymous No.1827742]

Meanwhile a sixth of our population is suffering in poverty.

Good work, NASA, you sure know what's important.

[Anonymous No.1827783]

>>1827742


those people are essentially in poverty by choice. so fuck that dead weight.