The Sky is Falling!
Ok I am not sure what to make of this and when it became a impending issue?
President Barack Obama set a lofty next goal this week for Americans in space: Visiting an asteroid by 2025. But reaching a space rock in a mere 15 years is a daunting mission, and one that might also carry the ultimate safety of the planet on its shoulders.
If humanity doesn’t develop a capability to meet space rocks head-on, and win, than it is almost a certainty that an asteroid will eventually threaten life on Earth, he added.
So let get this straight we are going after all the things we are dealing right now we are going to put funds into a program that has a goal that most likely not even going to happen.
Oh and try to make sense of one
“By going to a near-Earth object, an asteroid, and perhaps even modifying its trajectory slightly, we would demonstrate a hallmark in human history,” said Grunsfeld, who flew on three shuttle missions to fix the Hubble Space Telescope. “The first time humans showed that we can make better decisions than the dinosaurs made 65 million years ago.”
If humanity doesn’t develop a capability to meet space rocks head-on, and win, than it is almost a certainty that an asteroid will eventually threaten life on Earth, he added.
You make Captain Picard Cry.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, General Whackos
Thank you Obummer, Thank you, Thank you. Wow! Finally, I can quit worrying about Earth getting hit with a rock 10,000 years from now. I will be able to sleep again. This nagging fear has kept me awake for years. How can we ever thank him enough for allowing us to spend more of our money on such a needed project?
Nuf Sed
“The first time humans showed that we can make better decisions than the dinosaurs made 65 million years ago.”
Yeah, because as we all know, if the dinosaurs hadn’t wasted all their time and effort on having brains the size of Joe Biden’s charitable contributions, but instead had focussed on space exploration, they’d be here today to tell us all about how good roasted caveman tastes.
It doesn’t matter if we can land on an asteroid or not(though we’ve already done it with an unmanned package). Not yet, anyway. What matters is whether we can influence the trajectory of the asteroid. Understand that the amount of energy needed to move something big enough to be an extinction-level event is beyond what we possess at the moment. We’re talking millions, if not billions, of tons of rock moving at 25K mph. That’s a HELL of a lot of kinetic energy stored inside, and it will take massive engines being powered for quite awhile to influence it’s course.
This is stupid theatrics. We need to go to the moon, and develop it’s resources for use on Earth. the Chinese, Indians and Russians are all planning on going there to establish permanent bases. We should also be sending crews to Mars. Same reasons.
The amount we spend on the Space program is chump change compared to what Obama and his crew of thugs has spent on stimubribes and socialist health care programs to date. Absolute chump change.
Someone needs to kick Obama’s ass over this decision and get NASA back on track for manned missions. let the Military and Private Contractors handle the non-manned programs.
But (and kudos if you get this) will they make sure the astronauts have training in maintaining mental constitution after entering a higher dimension on an alien world?
This is so absurd it defies being taken seriously. Besides, it’s pretty obvious where it came from: Taking flak over terminating NASA’s worthwhile objectives, Obama needed something to make it look productive without challenging China or Russia (which probably precipitated the termination in the first place).
(PS: Does this meet the lady’s approval?)
What the Hell we don’t need NASA, we gots the Stargate. Hey Rhome give Gen. O’Neal a call and tell him to warm up the Stargate again ,he’s back in business. Oh! Rhome would ya also swing by Blockbuster and pick up another copy of “DEEP IMPACT” for me?
Hey Rhome, I almost forgot a couple of other things could ya get a hold of those Alien fellas and see if thier still planing to drop in for the 4th of July celebration and then call the Chinesse and see if those boats are gonna be ready by Dec 2012.
Damn. We put a man on the moon (from scratch) in 1969 after JFK said we would in 1961. Now, after having done that, it’ll take 15 years just to do something ripped-off from the plot of Armaggedon (only maybe the Apollo 8 version and w/ much better technology). It’s a like a 2 man-hour job taking 2 guys 3 hours to get it done.