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"Rick Sobie" |
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29 Aug 2003 07:20:34 PM |
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Right George, let's go to Mars... |
Deficit this deficit that who gives a good *****.
It is already so high that someone at some time is going
to have to forgive the debt.
You know that the Russians are planning the trip.
Are you going to make them go it alone?
The people at NASA say they can get it done.
You are a 'get it done' kinda guy as well.
Let's go for the gusto. Nuclear powered as planned.
(Just try to fit in the ark theme some how.)
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[...this is Major Tom to ground control...]
David Bowie (Space Oddity)
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| User: "The Ghost In The Machine" |
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| Title: Re: Right George, let's go to Mars... |
30 Aug 2003 11:00:16 AM |
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In sci.physics, Rick Sobie
<rsobie@spamblock_telus.net>
wrote
on Sat, 30 Aug 2003 00:20:34 GMT
<3F4FEE60.D9793F8E@spamblock_telus.net>:
Deficit this deficit that who gives a good *****.
Savings bonds holders, for one.
It is already so high that someone at some time is going
to have to forgive the debt.
You know that the Russians are planning the trip.
Are you going to make them go it alone?
The people at NASA say they can get it done.
You are a 'get it done' kinda guy as well.
Let's go for the gusto. Nuclear powered as planned.
Nuclear power is routinely used in deep space missions
to the outer planets -- though not in the way you might
think. Look up "Cassini mission" for details -- and the
controversy generated as the flight plan, in order to save
fuel, involved several flybys, including one that put the
craft very near the Earth, stealing some of its momentum
and worrying people that, had the NASA engineers goofed
the same way they goofed with the Mars Climate Orbiter,
it might have crashed into the Earth, spewing extremely
toxic plutonium all over the place.
The canisters are thick enough to survive reentry, they
assure us. Let's hope we don't find out the hard way.
In any event, it's well on its way to Saturn, as intended.
(Just try to fit in the ark theme some how.)
[1] Assume ice block in near-Earth orbit.
[2] Deorbit said block.
[3] Watch block drop on head as high pressure steam.
Next question? If you need them, I have detailed
calculations on why one gets steam rather than klonked on
the head by a deorbiting iceball. (It's an artifact of
an argument debunking Ye Arke.)
[.sigsnip]
--
#191,
It's still legal to go .sigless.
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| User: "Rick Sobie" |
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| Title: Re: Right George, let's go to Mars... |
30 Aug 2003 07:55:14 AM |
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Rick Sobie wrote:
Deficit this deficit that who gives a good *****.
When we had the economy rockin' George, we made 16 trillion in one year.
All of a sudden there was a surplus.
It is like when you first buy a house. And you think you cannot
afford it. Then after just a couple years you find that it
is not so expensive at all. Next thing you know, you have it
paid off.
The economy grows every year.
It is heading for good solid growth right now.
It is not that America cannot afford to go to Mars.
America cannot afford _not to go, if NASA wants to continue
to lead the world in space research.
The Russians are going. That we know.
The only way that it will work is if you tell NASA that
money is no object. You just want it done right.
You want to see their best.
You want to see that 'right stuff' we are always hearing about.
Otherwise America will not be able to say they are the
leaders in this field anymore.
As it is, they have worked very hard with little funding
and the fleet is old. It needs new money.
America will back you George.
Make that push, but do it right.
Fly that flag on Mars.
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| User: "Titan Point" |
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| Title: Re: Right George, let's go to Mars... |
30 Aug 2003 10:05:19 AM |
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On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 12:55:14 +0000, Rick Sobie wrote:
Rick Sobie wrote:
Deficit this deficit that who gives a good *****.
When we had the economy rockin' George, we made 16 trillion in one year.
All of a sudden there was a surplus.
It is like when you first buy a house. And you think you cannot
afford it. Then after just a couple years you find that it
is not so expensive at all. Next thing you know, you have it
paid off.
The economy grows every year.
It is heading for good solid growth right now.
It is not that America cannot afford to go to Mars.
America cannot afford _not to go, if NASA wants to continue
to lead the world in space research.
The Russians are going. That we know.
The only way that it will work is if you tell NASA that
money is no object. You just want it done right.
You want to see their best.
You want to see that 'right stuff' we are always hearing about.
Otherwise America will not be able to say they are the
leaders in this field anymore.
As it is, they have worked very hard with little funding
and the fleet is old. It needs new money.
America will back you George.
Make that push, but do it right.
Fly that flag on Mars.
-*-
I hear the Martians are building weapons of mass destruction. Tony Blair
says they could launch them in 45 minutes.
And the people of Mars are suffering under a brutal dictatorship that your
dad once supported...
Go George go!
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| User: "Jan Panteltje" |
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| Title: Re: Right George, let's go to Mars... |
30 Aug 2003 03:47:36 PM |
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On a sunny day (Sat, 30 Aug 2003 17:05:19 +0200) it happened "Titan Point"
<titanpointnospam@myrealbox.com> wrote in
<pan.2003.08.30.15.05.15.300536@myrealbox.com>:
Make that push, but do it right.
Fly that flag on Mars.
-*-
I hear the Martians are building weapons of mass destruction. Tony Blair
says they could launch them in 45 minutes.
And the people of Mars are suffering under a brutal dictatorship that your
dad once supported...
Go George go!
You got it man!
JP
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