"Obviously we don't have the money” OMG!
NASA’s budgetary cost as compared to the United States Federal Budget in 2009 was only 0.55%, and as it looks right now it will only be 0.52% in 2010…
If you were going to invest in any company, and when you look at that companies prospectus and did not see at least 4% of that company’s total earnings going into R&D… then you are most likely looking at a company that is not long for this world…
Also, I don’t see how anyone can get by the fact that an SRB has an order of magnitude less moving parts than any liquid rocket out there, and to say you can’t throttle down an SRB… Good God you are kidding me right???
BOOM is BOOM and DEAD is DEAD! :shock:
From an engineering standpoint less moving parts is a more simple design… not very easy to get by that one.
As Far as the MONEY GOES:
This great stimulus package that support such thing as $2 million for neon signs in Las Vegas, $4.5 million for an eco park featuring butterfly gardens and gopher tortoises, $500,000 for a dog park, $3 million for a municipal golf course clubhouse, $886,000 for a 36-hole disc golf course, $1.8 million for replacement tennis courts, $6 million for three aquatic centers with water slides…
And the list goes on, and on, and on, and on…
I would think we could find the cash if we truly wanted to right :?:
I wonder where we would be if it wasn’t for the push towards the MOON in the 60s ?
Maybe somewhere in the early 1980s technologically???
God that would suck to have to carry around a 25 pound ipod!
Sorry , Just a little venting... I couldn’t help myself…
