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pcernie
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Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am Posts: 12700 Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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Can't blame him. It a huge huge cost with little in return other than kudos. Communications satellites etc are much better value as they can be used commercially.
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Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:06 pm |
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belchingmatt
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri May 15, 2009 3:16 am Posts: 6146 Location: Middle Earth
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Shame, I blame the bankers. 
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Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:13 pm |
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timark_uk
Moderator
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:11 pm Posts: 12143 Location: Belfast
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Given the current economic climate this comes as no surprise but it is a little saddening for me to hear this. I was really looking forward to another manned Moon expedition. I guess it's just not to be, at least for this administration.
Mark
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Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:21 pm |
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rustybucket
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:10 pm Posts: 5836
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Agreed - very sad but no surprise.
Just think how many spare billions they'd have if they hadn't gone plus-four-ing around the world.
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Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:24 pm |
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ProfessorF
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:56 pm Posts: 12030
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It's a bit of a shame. Space exploration is good for technological progress here on Earth. Although, yes, a part of me thinks we should fix the problems we have here before looking out there. How about diverting some of that cash in to putting New Orleans back together, for one?
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Thu Jan 28, 2010 11:17 pm |
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Linux_User
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 3:29 pm Posts: 7173
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I thought it was generally agreed that robotic exploration of the solar system was not only cheaper but more effective anyway? 
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Thu Jan 28, 2010 11:18 pm |
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ProfessorF
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:56 pm Posts: 12030
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I think there's still a view that for some things, it's best to get feet on the ground.
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Thu Jan 28, 2010 11:21 pm |
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Paul1965
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:29 pm Posts: 5975
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Shame there's not any possibility of using a portion of the massive US Defence Budget:
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Fri Jan 29, 2010 11:26 am |
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JohnSheridan
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:10 pm Posts: 1057
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Very disappointing and short-sighted.
After Apollo 11 I would have thought we would already have had a moonbase by now and been to Mars - possibly with people living there but instead seem to have lost our way and decided as humans to crawl back under our rock we call Earth rather than exploring the galaxy.
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Fri Jan 29, 2010 12:04 pm |
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HeatherKay
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:13 pm Posts: 7262 Location: Here, but not all there.
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Yes, it is disappointing. Then again, it's a lot of money that could be properly used elsewhere right now.
If a country is all but bankrupt, can it afford to spend billions on sending a couple of humans to another world, especially when there's plenty of better things to spend it on here on planet Earth?
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Fri Jan 29, 2010 12:07 pm |
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eddie543
Occasionally has a life
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:53 pm Posts: 447 Location: Manchester
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The cost of creating a new apollo style project ever 6 years would be in today's money $165 billion, which is not bad really.
Plus regardless of the cost it would be for Obama his vote winner.
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Sat Jan 30, 2010 2:58 am |
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MrStevenRogers
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 9:44 pm Posts: 4860
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but just think spend all that money and have a world without the yanks i think that is money well worth spending such a shame that the only country with that amount of money to spend are the yanks …
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Sat Jan 30, 2010 8:25 am |
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eddie543
Occasionally has a life
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:53 pm Posts: 447 Location: Manchester
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That's the thing they don't have that sort of money to spend. The chinese in 7 years time might have enough, thier economy should be around twice its current size.
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Sat Jan 30, 2010 4:03 pm |
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okenobi
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:59 pm Posts: 4932 Location: Sestriere, Piemonte, Italia
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I don't know if you're old enough to have been watching the TV in 69, but from what I've been told, it was an immense, unifying experience where just about everyone gazed on in awe. Something for us all to shoot for perhaps. Inspiration is far more precious than anything money can buy...
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