Dick move, America.

[Anonymous No.4940617]

The landing was nice this morning, I loved it, but I don't get why they admitted having received help from other countries, and then proceeded with the "only America could have done it" speech. yeah it's cool that America took the initiative, but how is claiming all credit going to encourage other countries to partner up with them again?

[Anonymous No.4940623]

>>4940617
Do you think they joined in so they could masturbate to each other?

[Anonymous No.4940635]

America did it. Face it eurofags

[Anonymous No.4940636]

Every country that contributed has had their own press conference about how special they are because only they could have designed their part. Nationalistic dick waving is a big reason politicians can continue giving money to space programs. Nobody but children are buthurt about americans patting themselves on the back, its how the world works.

[Anonymous No.4940639]

>>4940636
I just wish all the shitposting would stop.

[Anonymous No.4940641]

I don't think anyone's butt hurt, plus I have never even been to europe. lol

[Anonymous No.4940646]

Oh, Nasa sent yet another rover to Mars to pretend they are doing something with all the money and smart people they have available? Cool story bro.

[Anonymous No.4940647]

What annoys me the most is they have to associate an achievement with a state.

Can't we just call it an achievement of mankind? That's all it is. We are the product of billions of years of evolution, and we're separating ourselves in a mere speck of our time on earth.

I'm sure not all of those engineers and scientists were born in the United States, not that it matters.

[Anonymous No.4940656]

>>4940647
this. what the fuck america.

no other country would claim ownership of such an amazing achievement. we are beginning to study how to inhabit other planets. fuck america, all you did was put the money there.

[Anonymous No.4940662]

The reason for the patriotism is to try and get the American public behind them, the American public that will vote and hopefully increase their funding.

If you read between the lines there was a lot said to try and justify why America should spend more on local engineering, science and education. It had to be done.

[Anonymous No.4940669]

>>4940656 all you did was put the money there
And that is the achievement. Because currently, no other country has the intelligence and perspective to do that in that extent.

In ten years China might have turned the tables though, with the USA being the ones who ask to join in.

[Anonymous No.4940668]

NASA doesn't want innovation, they want safety. Missions with relatively easy goals. They want a "cheap" rover to drill what, 1m into the surface to analyze hydrocarbons to look for sign of life? Why not a real drill to look for hydrocarbons deeper in the surface to find a source of fuel for return trips in the future? They let a fear of investment into a possible failure prevent them from making any groundbreaking discoveries. No wonder foreign governments and private American and British corporations are expected to be at the forefront of space exploration and development.

[Anonymous No.4940675]

>>4940647

Did a state not fund the project, using taxpayer money, and was the project not ran by a state organization?

FFS, every space-fairing nation claims their achievements. Hell, we're better than most, when we went to the moon, our Astronaut said "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind".

Not "hurr america".

Get off it, it's okay to show a little national pride. Until the world starts actually giving money to the USA or whomever to "work for humanity", I think the current system is workable.

[Anonymous No.4940673]

>>4940662

This, you all need to learn how to play the media and how humans work.

[Anonymous No.4940680]

>>4940675
>Implying America walked on the moon
>Implying it wasn't filmed by Kubrick when he was filming 2001: A Space Odyssey

[Anonymous No.4940695]

>>4940680
>implying the moon landing was a hoax
>confirming lack of critical thinking skills

[Anonymous No.4940703]

>>4940669
>In ten years China might have turned the tables though, with the USA being the ones who ask to join in.

I doubt it.
The US's monopoly on this stuff won't be broken because, when you take a look at the teams that design and innovate for NASA, they're typically a very diverse bunch.
The point is, no matter what geniuses other countries raise, the US is able to steal them away because the US has a monopoly on the best private universities in the world. It's not that the government of China can't invest in their own universities to modernize them, but it can't gain the centuries of recognition that the big names in the US have, nor can it attract as many world-renowned / top-of-the-field professors.
The US has an unmatched system of attracting and holding on to top talent, developed gradually over a century.

[Anonymous No.4940708]

>>4940680
Nigga, you're retarded.

[Anonymous No.4940715]

Remember when Switzerland found the Higgs boson? Thats right, you don't.
Nothing is worse than a nation of fat, uneducated, no healthcare having, indians exterminating, arab killing, planet polluting morons who believe their failed country is something holy.

[Anonymous No.4940712]

Why is America in a clapping fit? You landed an RC car on Mars, Europe revolutionised science with the discovery of the Higgs Boson a few weeks ago by the use of a significantly more expensive and impressive machine and you don't see us being clap happy and get in a massive circle clap over it, you didn't put a man there so why are you all sucking each other off? I guess Americans really are just immature and love the smell of their own smug.

Unless this was planned by NASA because if they hype it up enough the Americans will clap harder than they ever have before and all of that combined clapping faster than the speed of light will tear open a portal in space making human travel to Mars possible.

[Anonymous No.4940727]

So the America is proud to waste 2.5 billion on sending a minicar to a ball of dirt.

Awesome! It must be great to be a hard-working taxpayer in Amurrica.

[Anonymous No.4940730]

>>4940715
this

[Anonymous No.4940738]

>>4940715
And all we have is Hitler. ;_;

[Anonymous No.4940741]

>>4940703 it can't gain the centuries of recognition that the big names in the US have, nor can it attract as many world-renowned / top-of-the-field professors.
When the USA scraps the NASA budget, space engineers will side with whatever nation offers them to put their machines in Orbit, Moon, Mars, Space. Let them just say "We are sending a probe to Alpha Centauri, who is in?" - the world's best scientist will change flags in an instant.

[Anonymous No.4940742]

>>4940712

[Anonymous No.4940757]

Because Americans are dicks, how have you not realised that yet?

[Anonymous No.4940763]

>>4940715
Americans have an ego problem and a nasty attitude, this isn't new.

[Anonymous No.4940768]

>>4940715
ssht, let them in their glory.
It's moslty /b/tards so you can't blame the kiddos.

[Anonymous No.4940780]

>>4940741

If/when another country gets really serious about space exploration the US will get its ass moving again and NASA will get the resources it needs. What we really need is another space race, the US needs a serious competitor to get motivated.

[NavalAnon !!jz5JQZ1dN2Q No.4940785]

>>4940617
because ESA can't do it, Japan lol, the Russians haven't been able to coble a space probe in fucking ages, and China and India cannot into space probes. This is what America can do, we can combine efforts, and make parts into one super machine.

[Anonymous No.4940807]

>>4940715

[Anonymous No.4940816]

>>4940785

[NavalAnon !!jz5JQZ1dN2Q No.4940824]

>>4940816
But t is sort of true, ESA is good, but they lack the long term experience, Russia is having strange budget issues, China is still new at this space game, same as India, and Japan/South Korea are both small space programs focused around proving their own domestic rocket and space programs.

[Anonymous No.4940828]

Did you all know that Curiosity is fitted with infrared detectors manufactured by the Polish VIGO System company?

No kidding

[Anonymous No.4940835]

>>4940617
America did most of the work so they deserve most of the credit.

[Anonymous No.4940837]

This was NASA's PR project designed as a vehicle (lol, pun intended) for a number of objectives:
1. keep the fanbase entertained, loyal and fed with pics and whatnot
2. show the administration and the fanbase that NASA is still up and doing something (if they don't score enough PR points in the media, ppl might start thinking 'wait a minute, maybe Obama was right in slashing their funds')
3. attract enough media attention so that maybe this enthousiasm would put pressure on the political administration to give more funding
4. say that other countries contributed to this project so that *hint hint* someone from the administration would get it that "the American dream" is being sponsored from outside, which wouldn't go well with voters, would it..
5. ???
6. Lather, rinse, repeat (until u get more funding).

[Anonymous No.4940866]

Imagine if the Europeans claimed the same thing when announcing the (most probable) discovery of the higgs boson.

[Anonymous No.4940868]

Because right now, at this time, only America could have done it.

Is it that hard to understand?

[Anonymous No.4940870]

>>4940712

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XSq0PvVxMs

[Anonymous No.4940872]

>>4940866
Europe isn't a single identity yet, maybe technically but not really. You guys still bicker amongst yourselves, like our states used to do.

[Anonymous No.4940879]

>>4940872
>comparing your states to that of countries, each having a history so long and complex, even the marking of fourth of July seems like a fucking joke.

[Anonymous No.4940883]

>>4940785
I'd say esa is doing well
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/index.html

[Anonymous No.4940888]

>>4940879
>Using that as an excuse to not become a single entity, stronger than both America and China.
>Not allowing yourself to forget about your own individual cultures and histories

You act like what you have is better, when really it's only holding you back from your true potential.

[Anonymous No.4940893]

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[Anonymous No.4940895]

>>4940888
Could it be that you're shitting over our culture because you don't have any?

[Anonymous No.4940903]

>>4940888
>a single entity, stronger than both America and China.
Even if the EU did combine into one country, it still wouldn't be that strong.

[Anonymous No.4940915]

>>4940895
I don't think you know what the word culture means if you think the United States has none. Seems to me it would be impossible for a nation to not have a culture. The U.S. is a younger country, yes, but that doesn't mean its history or culture is less valid.

Face it, by saying "X European country has lasted for # years," and using that as an excuse to not consider yourself European first and foremost above any other identity, you're only doing yourself a disfavor.

[Anonymous No.4940922]

>>4940903
this

I think the US only lets them have like 10 nukes total anyways.

[Anonymous No.4940934]

>>4940903
Not that GDP is everything, but Europe United earns the most of any nation in the world. You underestimate the power Europe could bring to the table if it was a truly centralized nation.

[Anonymous No.4940944]

>>4940915
>American culture
Let's see.

>cowboys
>slaughtered Native Americans
>made a holiday where you give thanks for those Native Americans you slaughtered, while you sit around a table clapping while stuffing your faces with poison
>you got your independence by being annoying childish belligerent faggots FUCK YEAH AMERICA LETS DO THINGS OUR WAY (including, but not limited to: removing letters from words because they make words harder to spell, inbreeding, etc).
>civil war
>world war 1
>world war 2
>Vietnam war (lol got beat and almost bankrupt by farmers)
>Korean war
>9/11 masonic games
>Iraq war
>Afghanistan war
>Libyan war
>your own government are stockpiling coffins around the country because you are literally negative worth and they need to start out all over again with a blank slate
>filming the moon landings in the Nevada desert because you are so desperate to win the cold war and are ashamed of the fact that no one at NASA was smart enough to actually send people to the moon so they sent a probe with some mirrors on it

You are the laughing stock of the planet. All you can do is drive around in your motorized wheelchairs mentioning how many trillions of dollars you've spent on making an excessively large and inefficient military.

[Anonymous No.4940959]

>>4940944
None of that is culture. Some of it is history.. but..

Wait, why am I trying? You're trolling.

[Anonymous No.4940960]

I completely agree with you, OP. That's exactly my sentiment.

What to learn from this: Never help any American. They will only claim your part to be theirs and only theirs.
Seriously, the speech of the NASA's administrator was a joke. It basically went like: "Yeah, a lot of people from a lot of countries around the world worked on this, but USA USA USA USA SUCK OUR DICK CHINA USA USA USA USA."

I remember when China had that recent success with two space vehicles meeting each other. The news here in Germany were saying this was a major propaganda success for China ("propaganda" is a very negative term in German, puts you on one level with the Nazi), but in this case they are all positive to no end, while the US is playing the propaganda card worse than China ever did.

[Anonymous No.4940969]

>>4940960
>/pol/

[Anonymous No.4940971]

>>4940647

Piss off, anarchist vermin. Only a state could achieve such a thing. Deal with it.

[Anonymous No.4940972]

>>4940969
Hit too close to home? Awwww.

[Anonymous No.4940970]

>>4940959
Your only culture was being belligerent and giving monkeys voting rights and showing them favoritism over yourselves. White guilt = USA culture.

[Anonymous No.4940983]

>>4940668
I'm pretty sure that NASA would like to do that stuff if they got more money.

[Anonymous No.4940996]

Americans might aswell finance theyr own program with theyr own money then.

[Anonymous No.4941142]

>>4940960
Well of course. Western society is run on a huge, non-stop stream of pro-state and pro-corporate propaganda. That's just how the west functions. Demonize China, NK, Russia, any potential threat.

[Anonymous No.4941151]

Hey Russia and China... how long till that awesome Phobos-Grunt mission you guys were bragging about gets to Mars?

[Anonymous No.4941227]

>>4941151
NASA should just go ahead and do that one, too, make the first return trip with a sample, then they should sell the sample off. Whatever, they'll have sent the first mission ever to return from another planet in the history of humanity. It'd be a good lead-up to landing people on Mars, since the US isn't probably going to send a one-way manned mission there.

We should do it. We should just do it. Russia was going to do it for a few hundred million dollars? We have that kind of money.

[Anonymous No.4941229]

>>4940996
>implying America can do anything with their own money

[Anonymous No.4941251]

It was politicized for the election.

[Anonymous No.4941320]

Hey, Muhricans, just try not bombing it for now, mkey? Not everything red is a commie ally.

[Anonymous No.4941326]

Can someone explain to me why one would care enough about this topic to post in this thread?