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So how many more years before the govt kills NASA?

>> No.1926766

0

>> No.1926768
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1926768

During the next Republican administration, then NASA dies.

Then SpaceX and the Open Space Movement take over and use GLORIOUS MOLECULAR ASSEMBLERS to start the space age once they become available.

>> No.1926787

>During the next Republican administration, then NASA dies.
This sounds probable.
>use GLORIOUS MOLECULAR ASSEMBLERS to start the space age once they become available.
40 years is a long time to wait.

>> No.1926793
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>>1926787

The solution is simple.

WE GIVE MORE MONEY TO ERIC DREXLER

MORE MONEY I SAY

PIC RELATED FUNDING FOR NANOTECH IS WIN

>> No.1926804

>>1926793

WITH THAT I MEAN THAT THE PICTURE IS HOW THE NANOTECH REVOLUTION WILL FEEL LIKE

FUCK YEAH ACCELERATING PROGRESS, FUCK YEAH HUMANITY!

>> No.1926811

>>1926768
herp derp derp Obama is trying to cut funding towards nasa derp derp herpty derp

>> No.1926817

Have you not been paying attention. Obama has killed it. It is dead. It's over. The only American space program from here out is what the congress chooses to contract out to private space agencies.

>> No.1926839

>>1926768
Why wouldn't the tiger be able to breathe? And don't say there's no air, because there is. There's even an Air in Space museum that proves it.

OT: NASA's been effectively dead since Columbia went boom. Everything after that has just been death throes.

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>>1926817

>implying private spaceflight agencies have not proven to be better, faster, more focused, cheaper and overall more efficient than NASA

you mad?

>> No.1926844

>>1926817

Considering companies have outsourced so many jobs to Asia, is it really still considered American?

>> No.1926854

>>1926844
Pretty much.

They do the least important part of the jobs.

>> No.1926859

>>1926841
>number private space agencies that went to the moon
>0

Checkmate

>> No.1926868

>>1926859
>Number of rockets (or plans for rockets) NASA has that can go to the moon.
>0

>> No.1926864

>>1926859

but the free market...

>> No.1926872

>>1926841
I'm extremely mad. The one thing it makes zero sense to privatize... the one thing that needs the resources of a central government... the fucking socialist privatizes.

If you're wondering why the fuck he would do that, here's an idea:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5894392/barack_obamas_anticolonial_space_program.html

>> No.1926879

>mfw ESA and JAXA are the future of space, while NASA is dying

>> No.1926883

>>1926793
I've met Drexler, I doubt he's gonna make any breakthroughs soon.

>> No.1926886

>>1926879
>mfw Russia and China are the future of space, while NASA is dying
FTFY

>> No.1926889

>>1926868
Actually, NASA is getting a new rocket soon anyway.

Sooner or later something is gonna give. NASA has given more to science than any other agency in history.

>> No.1926902

>>1926886

http://www.jspec.jaxa.jp/e/activity/ikaros.html

JAPANESE MASTER RACE

>eagerly awaiting CCM

>> No.1926910

Lol they'll never get rid of nasa ever.

Anyway, Obama himself said they would send men to Mars but they can't now because it would be poor taste considering the current economic state of affairs. They're drawing up plans, just calm down you faggot alarmists. They sent 12 men to walk on the moon when nobody else in history did and they'll do better later. Bush before him planned the Mars mission too. It won't be soon but we'll definitely be the first ones there. Don't forget they did this back during the Nam era when military spending was far higher percentage of GDP wise.

>> No.1926914

>>1926902
China is going to the moon soon. Japs are still garbage.

>> No.1926930

>>1926902

Oh I know about IKAROS, and the Japanese space elevator thingee, but SpaceX made a rocket that can carry the same amount of cargo as the space shuttle and costs a fraction of the launch costs.

Then again I don't get over excited at NASA or Obama's plan or whatever. Just waiting... For the Nanotech Revolution...

When that happens: brb building an Earthport with Boomer in Kenya

>> No.1926958

>>1926914
aren't China trying to get to Mars the hardest?
WHY HAVEN'T WE GONE TO MARS YET!?

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Meanwhile, in space, my DeltaGlider IV has just circularized its lunar orbit and is preparing to make planar adjustments before landing at Upton Villiage lunar base.

Haters Gonna Hate

>> No.1926964

What do I need to do to save NASA? Should I get a law degree and defend them?

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>>1926960

I see your DeltaGlider and raise you a Bussard Fusion Ramjet.

>>1926964

Nah, to save NASA just hunt down the congressmen who cut its budget and then complain about it "not doing anything".

>> No.1926972

>>1926968
Oh, so I should get a law degree and run for congress then. I hope I win.

>> No.1926973

>>1926958
because the chinks can't do shit right.

It would take them a decade to do what we could do in a year.

>> No.1926975

>>1926972
Fuck lawyers and politicians. Be a rocket scientist.

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>>1926975

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>>1926964
Become one of the following. Extremely wealthy (funding), influential (convince people to fund), or powerful (make people fund) then find support for the space program to rape every other country on earth in scientific exploration again and again and again.

This is going to happen and nobody can stop us. USA USA USA USA

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>>1926960
Actually, Upton's too far off my orbital plane. I think I'll be refueling at Preludell base this evening.

>> No.1926993

i think nasa should be axed. I remember a few months after the big economic crash some nasa guy was on c span taling about a launch they did for a satelite that would scan a small area and figure out what percentage of the stars in that region had planets the size and distance from the star similar to the earth. It cost like a few billion dollars i believe.

What a waste. Intersteller travel doesn't seam realistically possible in my opinion. So what the fuck good is this project.

"hey bill, 5% of stars have earth like planets so there may be life, but we'll never encounter it"

"wow, fascinating"

fucking fags

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1926994

>mfw no other country on earth except US has Mars rovers near me
>mfw it will take eurofags eight years from now to even get a rover on Mars

lol rest of the world

>> No.1927003

>>1926994
Russia has been doing it along the US for decades.

Do you not read history?

>> No.1927005

>>1926984
I'm going to the Air Force Academy just to make this happen. Face it, nothing pumps up support for a space program than a couple of dashing and intelligent pilots.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Astronaut_Council

>> No.1927006

>>1926993
How about an actual article? I've never heard of a nasa star gazing project costing a billion+

>> No.1927009

if they do kill nasa im going to cry.
i'm not going to shed manly tears, im going to drop to the floor and act like a child that got his lollipop taken away

>> No.1927011

>>1927003
>Read history

Do YOU?

>Russia

You mean the USSR? And they failed horribly. The lesson for commies is never try.

>> No.1927014

>>1927003
Not really.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_rover

>> No.1927017

>>1927006
I don't remember how much it cost, but I remember it was pretty high, and it didn't seam like it would have any benifit to this country outside of trivial knowledge.

It was maybe january or febuary after the big economic crunch shortly before the presidential election

>> No.1927019

>>1927003
It's amazing how little of Russia's space accomplishments are in the general American consciousness. I've just been reading about them recently. I just found out that Russia even had a space shuttle that they launched into orbit once. I had no fucking idea. Fucking cold war!

>> No.1927043

>>1927019
What Russia? It was Soviet Union.

>> No.1927064

>>1927043
Russia basically was the Soviet Union. Since the lands of the Soviet Union was part of the Russian Empire.

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>>1927064
Pretty much.

>> No.1927258

Aku

>> No.1927291

>>1926910
Get out of here with your fancy newspaper reading logic, this is /sci/ - when /x/ and /new/ fuck and have a kid.