shutting down voyager....

[noose]

the voyager mission is without a doubt the most important space mission we have going right now, what other can delve into the outmost reachs of our solar system? hell if we scrap voyager it would be another 20+ years before we get another space craft into a similar position.... <br /><br />and now becuase the hairless monkey wants to put people on mars and the moon we have to cut this program.... 4.2 million is all it cost per years 4.2 freaking million... that's chump change for this government...<br /><br />we lost 8.8 billion so far in iraq and that's just money that is "LOST" and apperently noone wants to look for... <br /><br />that 8.8 would have funded this research untill their batteries run oiut in 2020....<br /><br />but no it's better for that douche bush to rip off this nation than it is for america to stay at the cutting edge of exploration and science....<br /><br />if bush allows this program to be cut then he is a traitor to america and should be banished from our shores....<br /><br />"I gotta waste more money that's mor eimportant than science" <br /><br /><br />everyone who supports science should understand this... <br /><br />""""Today Voyager 1, about 9 billion miles from Earth and traveling at 46,000 mph, and Voyager 2, about 7 billion miles away doing 63,000 mph, are flirting with the edge of the solar system, where the sun's magnetic field and the solar wind give way to interstellar wind. <br /><br />Virtually nothing is known about this boundary. Data from the spacecraft show periodic jumps in radiation levels -- expected when the solar wind is no longer able to block incoming cosmic rays -- followed by smaller declines. <br /><br />"By 2006, the spacecraft may have crossed into the outermost layer of solar atmosphere, where the supersonic wind has slowed and heated to a million degrees as it interacts with the interstellar wind," said California Institute of Technology physicist Edward C. Stone, Voyager's chief scientist from the outset. "If Voyager is termin

 

[vogon13]

Not to depress you further, but the Iraq $ is more like 10 times your figure of 8.8 billion.<br /><br />And don't forget the 400 billion erased in the savings and loan fiasco. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>

 

[nacnud]

the 8.8b$ was aid money literaly lost in iraq, nothing to do with the cost of the war, the accountants just can't find it,.