What is going on at NASA ?, Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news110014869.html

http://www.physorg.com/news110014869.html

Billions spent on technology that quite frankly gave little return investor interest.

Space shuttle and now the Space Station.

Money for space exploration is hard to find because NASA controls
that lions share.

If they are serious about interplanetary travel I hope they have some better ideas then what I have read on their websites.

Here is one that I like.

http://nlspropulsiion.net

But anything to get aerospace engineers to think outside the traditional box would be nice.

NASA has a great bunch of intelligent people. I hope to god NASA isn"t going to let these folks go also. That would be a national mistake in my opinion.

They cannot be serious?

They are talking about a "moon base", but it took how many years to make the space station and they still aren't done with it?

This has got to be some sort of sicke joke. These people cannot be this stupid.

The moon has all of the necessary supplies to make a base already (lunar concrete). Also, spacewalks take a much shorter time on the moon since it has some gravity. With 6 astronauts working on the moon at any given time, and with the aid of Japanese robotics, that signifigantly cuts down the number manhours required to build a base on the moon. Not to mention what we could do if we cooperated with the Chinese on this one.

This post has been edited by quantum_flux on Sep 26 2007, 04:05 PM

Are you serious? You mean.. you think we could accomplish more if we pulled together as a species instead of partitioning ourselves into warring factions? You must be a communist, someone scold this boy promptly!


Truthfully though, the conditions of space require so much money to overcome... Getting anything up to escape or orbital velocity is a pretty penny at least with our current prevailing technologies.

Do certain countries have the money? Absolutely. It's just being used on techs and manpower to conquer the other countries. In other words, "Defense Spending". I hope it's not wishful thinking to dream of a day when we look at the universe on a bigger scale and pull together. The space race should be such a uniting cause... instead it's just another warfront and an official "Our Country's Penis is Larger" competition.

I want to know more about the NLSP you mentioned. Wish I had the $$$ to invest, but I'm poor. Check out the site mentioned, but you'll have to take out the extra "i" when you type it in.

:-)

From that website you posted:
"Even my patent application and patent will not be published at my request.”

Does it get more bogus than that? This guy has never dealt with the patent office -- if he had, he would know that this is impossible.

Please refrain from posting obvious fiction.

Yes, confirmed. You are obviously a liberal who is too blind to realize most of the countries you want to just "share" our money and technology with would rather just kill us.

Please, the "with us or against us" attitude is a bit stifling.

I'm not a liberal. It's actually possible to refrain from classifying yourself into one of two categories. Good guess though, I bet you were sure you had me nailed.

The private sector will take over when that happens.

Bah! If they took a day off in Iraq every week and gave me the money they'd save, I'd keep a dollar and pour the rest to keep the station up!
Us earthlings already lost an awesome constellation of lovely satellites some years ago and now they plan to lose this!
Bah!

Bush Stikes Again, see what an under educated person can do to funk up a nation. The guy flunked college and quit the military during a war.

Ridiculous. 2 billion dollars a year? What will the US be spending on the Iraq fiasco in 2015?
Our country has its priorities all wrong. What a waste.

LOL!

24 billion dollars for non college/university schooling in Ohio and the state officials still had to lower the grading curve!

2 billion bucks for hard space science is well worth it.

Here's a thought! Mine asteriods! No EPA. ZERO earthquakes. Reduced onsite infer structure. Completely consumable!

Not to worry; any stated plans from NASA about year 2015 are bogus. We all know that NASA's plans change with every new president -- particularly when that president is of a different party.

Bush's days at the helm are numbered, and given the current trends it seems Hillary will be a shoe-in by next fall.

So all this hoopla about the Moon program and mothballing the ISS, is BS right now. While I'm not a prophet, I really don't think Hillary will continue Bush's ridiculous policies in this, nor in quite a few other arenas.

(Not that I'm a Hillary cheerleader; far from it. Just being realistic...)

I agree.