Pluto
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- CygnusZero4-2
Here is what I was getting at. And I LOVE space exploration. I own tons of movies about this stuff. My issue is with modern NASA. They havent done a whole hell of a lot thats been very meaningful since the Apollo missions.
Seems like they blew their load with that, then just kinda dropped off a cliff. They had the space shuttle, some mars rovers, hubble, but no real significant accomplishment. Why are we spending all of this money to visit a dead rock? Spend that money on space exploration that will mean something to the human race.
Why is it taking so fucking long for this company who is stuck in quicksand to figure out how to get a colony going on Mars? Oh... thats right.... theyre spending god knows how much money to go to PLUTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Needs new leadership badly, that is ambitious. Ive had a big problem with NASA for a long time now and Im not alone, I discuss this shit with other space exploration fans on other boards. NASA is AWFUL now. They have been for a long time. We dont even have our own method of space transportation anymore. We use the Ruassian for that lmfaoooooo. Meanwhile theyre blowing up rockets left and right with Space-X. What a disgrace they are now.
- They're. Sending. A. Probe. To. The. End. Of. The. Solar. System.
And not like they did with the Voyagers.
I don't get what's not to get here.detritus - And they do these pointless missions... while the government slashes their budget. Stop visiting dead rocks then!CygnusZero4
- And your SpaceX ranting's ridiculous - you do realise that most, if not all, rockets sent into space by NASA were made by commercial concerns?detritus
- hey Cygnus, you think spending money on setting up habitation on Mars is better?monospaced
- Dead rocks? Cygnus you aware of any planets with life that wouldn't also take thousands of years to get to?ETM
- go take a look at what the mars rovers, the hubble and (you forgot to mention) the iss brought back to humanity.uan
- because the data this missions gathered is a big part of all humanity knows about space. it's not a movie!uan
- NASAs historical budget is around $500 billion. Either pretty efficient spending, or poorly funded for all the accomplishments they've achieved since 1958.IRNlun6
- And not to mention all the benefits to private industry.IRNlun6
- How do they get past the Van Allen Belts?robthelad
- Fuck!! At what point does it just become a massive success for humanity? Who cares 'who' gets us somewhere?Ianbolton
- I find this a pathetic rant when the whole global economy is fucked and we're still chucking fuck loads into space exploration. Science still wins.Ianbolton
- For Cygnus. I call what NASA been doing meaningful. See Cassini as well: https://www.youtube.…wagshaft
- For Lanbolton: http://minnesota.cbs…wagshaft
- Exactly wagshaft. Some people are mindless morons. May as well just become religious and forget science. ;-)Ianbolton
- They're. Sending. A. Probe. To. The. End. Of. The. Solar. System.