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- michaelpinto, on 01/05/2009, -11/+362kemp34: If there was a checkbox on my tax form to give more money to NASA I'd gladly do it...
- Paulorific, on 01/05/2009, -6/+306***** it. I'll take a cold war with a focus on scientific advancements over a hot war with Freedom Fries.
- complacentpanda, on 01/05/2009, -10/+250NASA needs serious funding.
- funkify33, on 01/05/2009, -12/+244When I first saw this, i saw "Obama is Dead" and thought WTF!
- falkyr11, on 01/05/2009, -10/+193You know, back in 1960s, there were people who said the same thing: "There are too many problems here on Earth to be spending billions on sending men to the moon."
Thank goodness President Johnson ignored them. - badqat, on 01/05/2009, -7/+183Agreed - we need to be going to Mars...but, we could always use the moon as a launch pad for future missions to Mars.
- joand315, on 01/05/2009, -9/+178Funding NASA sounds like a great way to create jobs, get the economy moving, increase scientific knowledge, and come up with some great new inventions that will have uses outside of the space program. Go NASA.
- Shaggy3, on 01/05/2009, -1/+93$700,000,000,000 plz
- inactive, on 01/05/2009, -9/+91If you support 90% of the ***** the federal government spends money on, donate heavily, and don't ask me to fund it.
NASA is the only federal agency doing anything worthwhile. - dispontainious, on 01/05/2009, -12/+93sounds like the second cold war has also begun
- drmobutu, on 01/05/2009, -7/+82Dubya's already got dibs on Mars, for the history books...
- frieddonuts, on 01/05/2009, -1/+72The internet- everyone's an expert.
- michaelpinto, on 01/05/2009, -3/+70Most of your federal dollars go to social services or the pentagon — I'm not saying that there isn't any waste, but as Americans we pay much less in taxes than say Europe. Also in many EU counties you have a VAT tax which is a painful sales tax on everything. But getting back to NASA, they haven't had a real chunk of fed budget since the 60s...
- inactive, on 01/05/2009, -3/+68Bee-bopping back to the moon is a slanderous way to put it.
There are tremendous amounts of information to be learned and research to done which will have enormous implications here on earth. Really.
Also, there is He3 on the moon, which could be harvested and then used for clean, efficient fusion reactors here on Earth and on ships in space.
Finally, something that this planet could use is a little humbling. You will hear astronauts talked extensively about the psycho-spiritual impacts space travel has, specifically putting earth into true perspective within the universe; a pale blue dot. And we are insignificant, yet full of potential when we just work together. It will help people realize that we're not American, Chinese, Russian, Indian, Iraqi, what have you. We are Human, and we need to love each other so we can survive ourselves.
There are too many reasons to go, and not enough reasons not to. It's pre-destined that we, as an intelligent species, will go to space eventually. There will always be trouble and problems here on Earth no matter how long we wait. We have the capability to go now and we need to use that to our advantage. We had this power in the 60s but gave up on it because the programs true purpose was to develop rockets that could destroy countries.
And now the world is caught up to us, and surpassing us. If we don't go, we sit at the starting line of the entire epoch of space civilization waiting for our sociopolitical problems to be solved. That's not going to happen. This country is on the verge of collapse as any decently informed person knows. We can't fall behind in this, of all things. - michaelpinto, on 01/05/2009, -3/+61ObamAmerican48: Doing things like going to the moon requires R&D which has quite a few commercial spin offs. In fact the internet wouldn't exist without the money put into DARPA back in the day.
- lazybuoy, on 01/05/2009, -1/+56The race for helium-3 has officially begun.
- inactive, on 01/05/2009, -9/+62http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJfC0lNfj2I#t=5m56s
- marius404, on 01/05/2009, -2/+54If you dig a little deeper there is a bigger story. It is not about getting a man back on the moon. It is about making sure we can use space to our advantage in military situations instead of letting China get the upper hand. We could just send unmanned equipment but, it is looks good for us to make it a manned mission.
- inactive, on 01/05/2009, -0/+49So would I and I'm not even American.
- centran, on 01/05/2009, -2/+45yeah I know... people shouldn't use those words in the same sentence.
- rufishinjr, on 01/05/2009, -3/+45It's true. I've done both. Gotta say, a trip from the moon is inefficient.
- KillerBears, on 01/05/2009, -6/+46That'd actually be less efficient than a trip straight from earth
- DigitalisAkujin, on 01/05/2009, -2/+42best comment ever
- inactive, on 01/05/2009, -2/+41How about diverting a couple hundred billion from these useless "bailouts" and let's get ***** busy with this mars trip.
It would create tens of thousands of new jobs and extremely advanced new science and products. - ousthouse, on 01/05/2009, -4/+42WE LANDED ON THE MOON!?!?!?!?!!
- ptron, on 01/05/2009, -2/+40if you spent the 700B on everything NASA has ever done since it's inception you'd still have 100B left over.
- bizkit00, on 01/05/2009, -3/+40Because ***** you, that's why.
- EricAnderton, on 01/05/2009, -0/+33::clicks on tech upgrade for NASA::
You have not enough Vespene Gas. - michaelpinto, on 01/05/2009, -3/+36EMFK I'm glad our founding fathers didn't think of aiming a "little bit less high"! This nation and maybe modern civilization itself is based on aiming high — you wouldn't have an internet, airplanes or even transcontinental railroads (a dream of Lincoln BTW) if we just worried about the mundane. In fact it's that sort of project that creates job growth...
- inactive, on 01/05/2009, -0/+32Damn you Buy n Large.
- BeBigs, on 01/05/2009, -2/+33It popped up for a second on my FF extension and I was freaking out.
- EntangledPhysx, on 01/05/2009, -2/+32God I love NASA. They developed so many technologies we all take for granted, that to say it will not benefit you is ludicrous.
- inactive, on 01/05/2009, -1/+30The words "Obama is dead" should not appear together in any context.
- nugx, on 01/05/2009, -3/+30M. A. R. S. Thats right. Mars, Bitches!
- shniper, on 01/05/2009, -1/+28HAHA! I'm glad I'm not the only one. I read those first few words and lost my sense of thought for a few seconds.
- derektherock42, on 01/05/2009, -3/+29Me too!
- everlast88, on 01/05/2009, -15/+40"How about lets put a man in an apartment" - David Cross
- laizzesfaire, on 01/05/2009, -5/+30Why are there so many people who try and downplay the accomplishment. Beating the Russians or not why aren't you proud of what we as a nation have achieved, or do you hate America that much?
- punx, on 01/05/2009, -0/+24You know though, money WILL be spent on useless *****. Let's get back to the moon, and maybe beyond. Some of the things the space program created was pride in our country, a desire to go farther and higher, to make something better of ourselves, to be able to dream of other places and the endlessness of space. It could be a great jump start to people (Of which I am not one since I never lost it) to regain their belief in their country. It's just a thought, I could be wrong.
- oboshoe, on 01/05/2009, -3/+27I don't care about beating the Chinese. But damnit, we should be on the moon.
We went there 40 years ago. We should be there now. - IronTek, on 01/05/2009, -4/+27To don't do well by NASA.
The Mars/Moon thing was really more of a plan to end the shuttle program without any backlash (a politically savvy move, really).
Funding never really increased in line with Bush's "vision."
It's been *mostly* lip service and little more. - max1018, on 01/05/2009, -2/+24Yeah, apparently it was pretty big.
- EntangledPhysx, on 01/05/2009, -4/+26How about we develop technologies that allow us to build extremely affordable housing with fantastic medicine, etc, which came to be though advanced R&D at NASA and even the military?
- inactive, on 01/05/2009, -2/+24Except the link between the cold war and space exploration - or in reality, rockets that can launch a payload into space - was nuclear weapons capable of reaching anywhere in the world.
That goal is no longer present; nor is any that include attempts to perfect doomsday device technology. We use the most violent form of energy (nuclear) to be able to destroy the world thousands of times over. And the arsenal we already do have costs us $266 billion just for R&D and maintenance.
So no, this is nothing like the Cold War. Now it's a real space race -- which is why once we get up there, we will never leave. We're rapidly becoming a spacefaring people and I cannot wait until we get our asses back into space like we should have kept doing in the 70s. - Azerael, on 01/05/2009, -2/+23I'm proud of what our *species* accomplished.
- Nero9171, on 01/05/2009, -6/+27Did anyone else think that Obama was dead when they first read the title?
- CLAWC, on 01/05/2009, -1/+21Almost scared *****.
- spoonchucks, on 01/05/2009, -3/+23Screw helium-3... Everyone knows that Ice-9 is where it's at.
- HalsMyPal, on 01/05/2009, -0/+19"Once man has shot to the stars together he can no longer shoot at eachother"
-Wernher von Braun - Mattwdj, on 01/05/2009, -7/+26America ***** YEAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
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