Still seeing each other then,eh?How much do you love him,tell uncle porky.

Hey now,don't be like that to uncle porky.Be a good boy.

33.33% of this forum believe men did not land on the moon!

AssBlaster! Cheating on me with PORKMARRAS? I'm pissed. Can we all consumate our relationships with each other? I mean, PorkMarras is fucking hawt.

Really shows the 33.33% of unintelligent people doesn't it?

You probably believe the earth is round, too! LOL

You're a faulty human being.

aren't we all.

You mean, you've NEVER been to the moon? Lamer.

the single greatest achievement of exploration in the HISTORY of HUMANITY, the entire fucking HISTORY of it.

Long live space exploration. long live astronauts. Did you know 7 astronauts DIED in the years before the moon landing, trying to perfect the hardware we would use to get to the moon? did ya? all the fuckers that doubt we went to the moon can suck those dead astronauts cocks. and choke on them

Rob, while I agree that man landed on the moon I would never say something as stupid as 'long live space exploration'. Every year we lose tons of money to accomplish what? Collecting rocks? Hi-Res pictures?

Waste of fucking money.

There are far worse so-called "Wastes of money" that are far larger.

Space travel is the future. Long-term future. You need to think of these things in terms beyond your own lifetime.
Stopping the space program will not end hunger or war.
Let's try fucking birth control, shall we?

Of course this is true. I'm just saying that they could put money into some shit that works. They do have the best engineers and stuff. I don't know.

Birth Control should be required.

the reason why space exploration is on hiatus is it's too damn expensive & the trade -off benefits aren't considered viable (you know with all these defense budgets to keep up so that crooks can steal from them)

space exploration is the future, but there are too many problems here on terra firma...

on a related note, (not space travel though)
concorde sst almost bankrupted england & france

what caused punk more than perhaps anything else?

the fucking concorde, man...the depressed economic conditions that were a direct causal result

concorde still rules though ...technology way before its time & the closest we'll ever get to a time machine, by the way

only one crash (in '98 methinks)

it was due to a small, stray piece of metal on the runway that sheared a wheel causing a spark to ignite a fuel tank...they corrected the problem with extra insulation...they" being the world's foremost engineers---bar fucking none. concorde finally flew again on none other than the fateful day of september eleventh two thousand and one. the us was always jealous of the technology. then, the sst was grounded in '03 due to budget problems finally reaching a fatal breaking point. only like eleven of them were ever made. it's sad that the most sophisticated technology on the planet (which was invented in the late sixties/early seventies by the way --- we've been super-slack since then as a species) is now no longer in use!


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The Concorde is just too expensive to service. And it's not because it's a problematic machine that breaks down a lot. It doesn't. Building them is, or course, ultra-expensive.
And the maintenance has to be done by engineers that are so brilliant that it costs way too much money to keep them on the payroll.

My math teacher showed us a leaf chart with all the temperature that shuttles had flew at. The big one that crashed(I forget the name) took off at like 30 degrees farenheit while the others all did in the range of 60-80.

I opted for the vasectomy, but thanks.
Take photos when you go on your spree and I'll sell them to fetishists. We can split the take.

what gets me is how the USA can pull 97 BILLIO dollars out of it's collective ass every year to fund this "war" on terror and we canno come up with even ONE BILLION to prop up our ridiculous and tepid public school system.
Space is the Place. the money to fix the problems we have is there and it is NOT being used for NASA

it is being used to build MILITARY MIGHT to pay for ever more outrageous weapons, to feed a military industrial complex that sucks up over a third of the united states budget each year.


There is enough money to go around to feed everyone, guarantee everyone decent health care, provide for what should be the single greatest public education system in the world, AND got to space.

without space there are no sattelites, without sattelites there is no internet. without space there is no worlwide communications web, no cellphones, no sattelite television broadcasts from around the globe, etc etc.

It was worth a shot.

most people will tell you that the space shuttle is the most sophisticated technology on the planet...i really think it's concorde sst though
& true, Rob, education is even more important than space exploration...our education system will continue to bear bad fruit until we fix that score.

sidenote
Arthur C. Clarke pretty much invented the communications satellite.

Ha ha....well done once again.