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Aside from that whole, first-man-to-walk-on-the-moon thing, he also decided to vocalize his thoughts on Obama's new space plans. Oh, and did I mention that his thoughts are that Obama's space plan sucks serious fucking dick? (I'm, uh, slightly paraphrasing that ...)
Canceling Constellation could lead to thousands of layoffs at some of America's biggest aerospace contractors, including Lockheed Martin, the Boeing Co. and ATK. Such job losses are among the factors behind congressional opposition to the cancellation. Armstrong and his fellow astronauts emphasize the bigger implications, however, and say in their letter that the decision would put the nation on a "long downhill slide to mediocrity."
The letter notes that the U.S. space effort will be dependent for years to come on the Russians for transport to the International Space Station, at a cost of more than $50 million per seat.
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Armstrong and his colleagues complained that the cancellation would amount to wasting the roughly $10 billion that has been allocated to Constellation over the past five years. "Equally importantly, we will have lost the many years required to re-create the equivalent of what we will have discarded," they wrote.
"For the United States, the leading spacefaring nation for nearly half a century, to be without carriage to low Earth orbit and with no human exploration capability to go beyond Earth orbit for an indeterminate time into the future, destines our nation to become one of second- or even third-rate stature," they said in the letter.
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The Millenial Challenges are doing more to push efficiency and repeatable safe results that building a big dick missile, with an as yet to be defined crew capsule.
Space X is already in a situation where more efficient (at least in cost) delivery of robotic COTS resupply to the ISS and affordable LEO scietific missions to the private sector, and they are already working on a crew capsule that may be able to deliver human flight to LEO before Orion ever could.
Not to mention all of the other companies in the way (no not VG, they are more about short term proffitibility and building interest, which is a good thing, but if they can make money sooner rather than later with suborbital, then that will increase the volume of angel investment capital creating MORE competition and more options.
If the government has a responsibility in this new policy, it isn't for government to try to compete with commercial, it's in reviewing criteria and establishing standards, so that all crew capsules can be mounted on all Launch Vehicles, cutting back on proprietary BS (though I think proprietary competition at this phase would only exist in prototypes, eventually the market will find efficience, and likely before the government can eff it all up.)
Space is a National Security Concern. Manned space flight, to the moon and Mars is not. We can still cover our National Security Concerns without Orion.
I'm not an expert, just a minor fanboy. Look for sindberg, and john goff, and others in the big space sites. Universe today has a lot of good links, as does rand simberg and vision restoration.
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Posted by: Douglas at April 13, 2010 09:46 PM (uU+Ss)
Douglas, doesn't it bother you (even a little) that NASA is being turned into a glorified climate tracker? That, after pouring eleven billion dollars into a project, we just shitcan it - when Obama's own people said it was a matter of only three billion more to make the project viable?
We have no way to get off the planet - except to pay the Russians double the price that we have been, since they now know we have no alternative to using them.
I agree that privatization will be good for spaceflight. I also agree with Armstrong that losing our presence in space is a bad idea. I am also something of a minor fanboy. The way that Obama has handled the space program is laughable, in my opinion.
But, I think most shockingly, space travel is about the very things that Obama campaigned on (and I've made this point in previous blogs). Space travel is about hope. The hope for great things for our future, the joy and thrill of discovery, the very manifest destiny that pionerring Americans had. To give up on that aspect is saddening.
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billion more to make the project viable?
The bureaucrats ALWAYS say "just a little more money." "oh, we spent 4 billion than we were supposed to already, but we only need 3 billion more." I don't buy it, Never will. Big Dig, Katrina (could have leveled the city and rebuilt the whole damn place) Orion (actually VSE) California as a whole.
No it doesn't bug me that we canceled it, it bugs me that we spent it in the first place.
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I agree, EXCEPT! We went 6 years between appollo and the shuttle, we went 3 years between challenger and next launce, we went 4 years between columbia and now, and we are looking at a 6 year wait even IF! VSE follows existing predictions, and when was the last time government delivered on that?
And before you say "appollo" It took 6% of expenditure to pull that off. You willing to put 6 percent of our national value into recreating apollo? Which will use disposables, ignore infrastructure, bottleneck technology and know how?
I'll wait a few more years, for the private sector to establish a real infrastructure, and dealing with the vagaries of the market, they will do it better than a governmental monopoly.
I can understand thinking that orion (which is just the CSV) is a necessity, but it hasn't even been designed yet.
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Everyone agree? (Since this isn't exactly an interactive forum, I will continue my point. Take that, that one guy who reads this blog! Or, tell me I'm a dumbass in the comments. That's cool, too.)
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On Wednesday, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, proposed a new bill that, if passed, would extend the space shuttle program for two years beyond its planned 2010 retirement.
Hutchison's bill would also require the space agency to study options for a new launcher that could be ready to deliver U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station by the end of 2013 and beyond low Earth orbit by the end of 2018.
The bill, dubbed the Human Space Flight Capability Assurance and Enhancement Act, calls for spending an additional $3.4 billion between 2010 and 2012 to keep the space shuttle flying. It would require NASA to spread out its four remaining shuttle missions, now slated to wrap up by October, and potentially add additional flights.
Companion legislation is expected to be introduced in the House next week by U.S. Reps. Suzanne Kosmas, D-Fla., and Bill Posey, R-Fla.
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Letters have gone out to Constellation contractors, asking how much it will cost to shut their work down. Monday, NASA wrote to ATK Launch Systems Inc., which is building the first stage of the Ares I, requesting estimates of termination costs "as of the end of this and each of the next three [financial] quarters."
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Indeed, about 30 members of Congress wrote Bolden recently to warn that his efforts to prepare for termination without permission from Congress — including gathering information about closeout costs — could be viewed as illegal.
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That's how we got Hillary's Hilarity when she asked who painted Our Lady of Guadaloupe and the "Overcharge Button".
Obama probably had no idea he was supposed to trade gifts until that morning when someone said, "So, what did you get Brown?" Who can forget his hilarious obeisances where he shakes hands while bowing. That's the diplomatic version of wearing suspenders and a belt. With shorts.
Eh, the children are in charge. This time, instead of just scamming as much as they can (Clintonistas) they're trying to remake America into some sort of Marxist/Daleyist state. They were successful in the 90s because everybody was making money. Now, they're taking our money and giving it to their friends while calling us names. The next 3 years are going to be velly intellesting. Velly.
Posted by: Veeshir at March 01, 2010 05:40 PM (GLfio)
Remember, once upon a time, in a far away land (also known as a month ago), when NASA was supposed to be getting man back on the moon? Do you also remember that the Obama administration cut the funding and the projects that would, in fact, get us back to the moon and started to turn NASA into a global-warming - er, excuse me, climate change - monitoring agency?
Apparently, this has a few of the fine congresscritters up on the hill a bit miffed. With NASA. Not the administration's budget, oh, no, but with NASA. Yep.
NASA needs to go somewhere specific, not just talk about it, skeptical U.S. senators told the space agency chief Wednesday.
President Barack Obama's proposed budget kills the previous administration's return-to-the-moon mission, sometimes nicknamed "Apollo on steroids." That leaves the space agency adrift without a goal or destination, senators and outside experts said at a Senate Commerce science and space subcommittee hearing, the first since Obama unveiled his new space plan this month.
On top of that the nation's space shuttle fleet is only months away from long-planned retirement, an issue for senators from Florida, where NASA is a major employer. And while the new NASA plan includes extra money — $6 billion over five years — for private spaceships and developing new rocket technology, NASA shouldn't be just about spending, the senators said. It should be about John F. Kennedy-like vision.
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Color me a little skepticalThe Daily Mail is reporting that a US Soldier stationed at Ft. Lewis has been accused of waterboarding his 4 year old daughter because she couldn't recite the alphabet.
The link they attempt to draw is that his service made him do it -
Police have not revealed Tabor's military service, but his base is home to units that have served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I'm a little skeptical. First, I haven't heard this reported on local news so I kind of doubt the story in general. Second, Parents abuse kids everyday and it has nothing to do with military service so this is a cheap shot at the military.
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They'll be cleaning their rooms TODAY, you can be sure.
Posted by: Car in at February 08, 2010 08:56 AM (DIsMj)
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I'm not convinced he "waterboarded" his daughter. This doesn't quite sound like the description of the process I've come to know as "waterboarding".
"As his daughter 'squirmed' to get away, Tabor said he submerged her face three or four times until the water was lapping around her forehead and jawline."
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Hot on the heels of Big O deciding to turn NASA from a space agency to a global-warming tracker, Iran is announcing that Kavoshgar-3 (translated as Explorer-3) has been successfully launched into space with a mouse, a couple of turtles, and some worms on it.
Why, do you ask, does this matter, when many other countries have done the same thing with more advanced species?
Well, aside from the implications of Iran having a fully functioning space program on national defense and security (if you can send a ship to space, you can send a rocket just about anywhere), there is our own standing in the world as a strong power in technology and space to consider. While Iran continues to push forward with nuclear technology that we definitely don't like, they also plan on having a man in orbit within the next ten years. Meanwhile, we've decided to stop working on spacecraft that have the potential to take a man beyond orbit.
Space travel is about the first half of Obama's campaign platform - hope. About the hope and desire of mankind, and Americans, to make an impact, not just on our earth, but on the universe. To know what's out there and what it's like, to learn new things about the marvels around us, and, to get a little Trekkie on you, "to seek out new life and explore strange new worlds."
But, I guess, that's just not the kind of hope that Obama was talking about.
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What pisses me off the most about Obama's cancellation of the Constellation project is that it is so unnecessary. If he were to announce a real budget clampdown, cutting out hundreds of billions of wasteful spending - hundreds of billions, like, 7, or so - and Constellation was one of them, I would accept it as a project that is not truly necessary and fairly expensive.
As it is, the fucker is still increasing spending like a drunken Keynes. He gave 8 billion to Florida to start construction on that stupid Obamarail that will end up costing the Feds three times that. That paltry 8 billion is more than double the cost of the whole Constellation program!
The cost of the Constellation program is a little more than $12 per person in the US - about $25 per worker. Of all of the stupid shit we pay for - including thousands I have already given to old people that I will never see again - I would be glad to pay $25 to put another American on the moon.
And they say conservatives are anti-science.
Posted by: Jeff M at February 03, 2010 10:42 PM (8P3+x)
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extends to the visual horizon as seen from the burst point.
Repent, infidels!
Posted by: the botnet at February 03, 2010 11:06 PM (kZzmb)
I've kind of been a commie-symp' since the Chinese started their plan to put men back on the moon.
I'm a space-whore when it comes to unequivocally approving space programs. I don't care. Get.Us.Moved.Off.Planet.
And fuck all: if Iran wants to send earthworms to space, I'm okay with that too.
...especially if it would scare some short-sighted DC politicians to get their heads out of their asses.
Posted by: davis,br at February 04, 2010 12:18 AM (uCShA)
4 I wrote a post a few months ago (at Uncommon Misconceptions, not IB), which tried to make the argument that one of the fundamental differences between conservatives and liberals is the notion of destiny. Conservatives believe that mankind is on a course to something better, while liberals believe that this is pretty much it. So conservatives aren't as concerned with the environment, social justice, and other such causes - we have our eye on the future. For liberals, if there's no ultimate point to our existence, then issues like the environment and social justice are critical.
I once likened it to driving a car. Conservatives don't mind the car getting dirty or falling into some disrepair as long as the car is still getting to its destination. Liberals don't believe there's any point to actually driving the car, so they spend their time repairing and cleaning it . . . and hoping it's never used.
Posted by: geoff at February 04, 2010 10:12 AM (G/5Za)
This Mutinous Cretin Does Not Speak For Conservatism
Usually, I blow off the "guilt by six degrees of separation" that the left loves to play against us, because I refuse to be cowed for the actions or people I do not know, nor have ever known. Besides, that tactic is disingenuous and lazy. But not this time. This asshole (warning: Lefty link) does not speak for me. This asshole does not speak for conservatism. This asshole needs to get HIS asshole forcibly widened for what he has done. And this asshole needs to be thrown down a hole and forgotten about. The fact that this guy is a child rapist is enough to convince me that he needs to be purged from humanity and civil society, and I would say nothing more about him. But, the fact that he is a member of a group that strikes me as mutinous is something that needs to be called out.
Below is our declaration of orders we will NOT obey because we will
consider them unconstitutional (and thus unlawful) and immoral
violations of the natural rights of the people. Such orders would be
acts of war against the American people by their own government, and
thus acts of treason. We will not make war against our own people. We
will not commit treason. We will defend the Republic.
Look pal, if you have issues about orders, there are avenues of redress. But an organized and coordinated plan based not on an abusive or insane Commanding Officer, but (apparently) solely on the fact you do not like who is in charge? NO. FUCKING. WAY. A long time ago, I took a fucking oath to serve the fucking Constitution, and this shit will not be tolerated. This shit will not be allowed anywhere near where I stand. And if I were still in the military, I would have pushed for any Oath Keeper to be arrested on the spot for being involved in an activity as such (besides, I would be arrested if I knew of such a plot and did nothing. But that's another issue for another time).
No. I will not tolerate mutiny or sedition. This Constitution and Republic have a way of cleansing itself without criminal fucking activity. Any asshole who takes the oath and then involves themselves in what appears to be a mutinous endeavor needs to be sent away, for they have violated their commitment and oath. They have violated the Republican (not the party, but the system of government) process, the process that can and will fix itself. And they are of no use to those of us who wish to save this country by legal and electoral means.
Get the fuck out of my sight, Charles Dyer and the rest of you folks associated with him. And stay away from my military.
I'll be in my room, watching the "California Highway Patrol officers mug little old lady to confiscate her gun" portion of 'Listening to Katrina'.
Posted by: DaveP. at January 24, 2010 09:15 AM (6iy97)
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I'd also like to point out that just because someone speaks at a Tea Party, this does not make them a 'Tea Party Leader'.
Posted by: Alice H at January 24, 2010 09:40 AM (qJHYy)
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I'd also like to point out that David Niewert changed the title of his post to 'Oath Keepers Leader' from 'Tea Party Leader' without even bothering to note that he changed it, days after his original post.
Posted by: Alice H at January 24, 2010 09:46 AM (qJHYy)
6but (apparently) solely on the fact you do not like who is in charge?
I would have bet money that I had heard about them before last year, but their blogspot blog started 3/09 and Wikipedia claims the same, maybe it was just talk, less organized or maybe I'm just wrong (gasp!).
That makes it worse. I don't trust Obama at all but I don't think he deserves that response. Especially since these people already swore an oath to the Constitution, that pretty much covers everything.
I also don't trust people, rather, I do trust them. To do stupid shit. So we have a bunch of people who are all torqued about defending the Constitution. What happens when some of the more militant decide (rationalize) that the Constitution needs saving before the rest of the country thinks that?
I don't know if Heinlein said it first, but this is spot on from the story, "Gulf", "Man isn't a rational species, he's a rationalizing species."
People talking about Mutiny scare me. It rarely ends well.
Posted by: Veeshir at January 24, 2010 10:10 AM (LCGop)
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I have a LEO friend that is an oath keeper and its not as kooky as that child rapist makes it look. Also, I read over their sight and some cat named Stewart Rhoads is the "leader" and not this child rapist. They have a contact page if you want to ask them about it.
I think Crooks and Liars found some Alex Jones type and propped him up as your "typical" oath keeper.
Posted by: liquidflorian at January 24, 2010 01:56 PM (hoGGh)
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Yeah, its kinda subjective... I'm sure they want to stay away from situations like Katrina where CHP was mugging old ladies for 38 specials, but I know they also would probably disarm a crowd of protesters at a G8 convention. This seems to stem from the Katrina incidents, but yeah; its a little hypocritical to say that you're not going to do these things, but do them in situations where its warranted. I don't know, it all comes down to discretion I guess but then you're on the slippery slope of who is more worthy of these protections.
Yeah, some of those testimonials had that air to them... I don't know the only experience I've had with the group is their TV appearances and my friend in PD; and I know he isn't that way. The only thing that really grates on me is LEOs who haven't served calling people civilians like its derogatory. I received a ticket from a kid probably no old then 23 who kept doing that through the whole process. When I had enough I asked him if he had a DD214 in his record and he didn't even know what it was.
oh, and a little off topic; SFPD SWAT has a 240B, but yeah I get your point about Mil/LEO.
Posted by: liquidflorian at January 24, 2010 03:38 PM (hoGGh)
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Seems to me this sort of organization is unnecessary. If things really get hairy in a fascistic sort of way, there are going to be mass defections/mutinies/AWOLs/insurrections anyway, so there's no point in putting one's self out in the open like this in a way that might be considered mutinous.
Posted by: JoeCollins at January 24, 2010 05:39 PM (jtJig)
10I'll be in my room, watching the "California Highway Patrol officers
mug little old lady to confiscate her gun" portion of 'Listening to
Katrina'.
I understand what you're saying, I think Oathkeepers were partially created in reaction to the illegal gov't seizure of personal legal firearms. Nonetheless, the system ultimately worked, or is working. The NOPD shouldn't have done what they did, and New Orleans is gonna get reamed in the ass with a sandpaper condom in a class action for civil rights violations, assuming they haven't settled for a pile of money already. The system is still working, not great I'll grant you, but it's still working.
Posted by: doubleplusundead at January 24, 2010 07:21 PM (N/KIT)
11...New Orleans is gonna get reamed in the ass with a sandpaper condom in a
class action for civil rights violations, assuming they haven't settled
for a pile of money already.
Last I had heard was earlier this year folks were only just getting some of their guns back. A lot are still "missing"...
Posted by: liquidflorian at January 24, 2010 08:25 PM (hoGGh)
12Last I had heard was earlier this year folks were only just getting some of their guns back. A lot are still "missing"...
Yeah, and I can guarantee if they can't come up with those "missing" guns, they're gonna either hand over a pile of money to replace said guns, and pay for damages, both in property value and emotional damages (because undoubtedly people lost heirlooms because of the NOPD's stupidity), or the NRA's legal defense fund or some civil rights attorney is going to come down on them like the fist from an angry God.
Posted by: doubleplusundead at January 25, 2010 12:00 AM (N/KIT)
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I'm just stopping by to say this for the record. Not only was Charles Dyer never a leader in OK , he was never even a member.
The left has been calling him that -shame on you for just repeating it.
He spoke at a tea party and gave an oath ceremony as did dozens of other people. A standard speech and general oath were placed on the old OK blog, inviting any veteran to read it off and swear in the crowd.
He was one of them.
By the way, it is absolutely illegal to obey an unlawful order.
Getting attacked on all sides for wanting to uphold the constitution. I wish my husband had never started this thing.
-Tasha Rhodes
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Posted by: coaster at February 04, 2011 01:04 AM (tnKMK)
Look, oppose Kirk for his voting record. Oppose Kirk for his stance on issues. Oppose Kirk just because. But gay baiting? Fuck. And. No. The people doing that need to be jackhammered by a steer so deep that their ears get jealous.
So fuck off, gay baiters. And come up with a better reason to oppose a guy.
***NOTE: I ORIGINALLY THOUGHT THE TEA PARTY GUY WAS THE ONE MAKING THE GAY SLURS. BUT I WAS WRONG. SOME OTHER GUY IS DOING THE SLUR STUFF. REGARDLESS OF WHO SPREADS THE RUMORS, WE SHOULD LEAVE SOMEBODY'S CHOICE OF (LEGAL, NO CHRIS HANSEN PAYS YOU A VISIT TYPE) GENITAL GRATIFICATION OUT OF OUR VOTING PATTERNS ***
I live in Kirk's district and I actually heard the radio ad mentioned in the article last week. At first, I thought I just happened to turn into Rush during one of his parodies, but then I realized that it was an actual commercial being broadcast on the radio.
I was absolutely shocked that someone would even attempted to run with an ad like that. Really, don't vote for a guy because he might be a homosexual? Or because he hires homosexuals (this was part of the ad)? Really?
Patrick Hughes - Republican running against Mark Kirk in the primary. Endorsed by Mark Levin.
Andy Martin
- Republican running against Mark Kirk in the primary. This is the guy
running the radio ads about Kirk's sexuality - the ad can be heard here.
He doesn't directly accuse Kirk of teh ghey, but calls him a de facto
pedophile for not stopping Mark Foley, and if I had a guess, he's
trying to harness the rumors about Kirk's sexuality. There may be
other ads out there that are more disgusting.
*In my opinion,
the only reason that should be an issue is because of the mess it could
create down the road. I'd rather have an out, loud, and proud
conservative candidate than a RINO who's being dishonest with his
voters.
Posted by: Alice H at January 11, 2010 05:02 PM (qJHYy)
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darnit, there's a missing comment that's trapped in the spam filter that talks more about Kirk than just where he likes to stick his naughty bits. I don't know how to clean the spam trap.
Posted by: Alice H at January 11, 2010 05:05 PM (qJHYy)
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If Kirk supports mandatory ballroom dancing, I'm not voting for him.
Posted by: Spank at January 11, 2010 05:28 PM (S2NsL)
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Wow, that ad was real? I was visiting Chicago this week (don't worry eddie, I only looked at Wrigley Field, I didn't contract Kubitis), and I heard that ad. I thought it was a joke!
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Posted by: Ember at January 11, 2010 05:56 PM (LdRAG)
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The guy doing the ads, Andy Martin (R), used to be Anthony Robert Martin-Trigona. Anthony Robert Martin-Trigona was a Democrat for decades, has run for about every office their is, files frivolous law suits all the time, and is a plain overall nutbag.
In the 60's he would go into the Daily Illini building dressed in fatigues and tried to convince college reporters to go to Vietnam with him and get "the scoop".
Posted by: Dutch boy at January 11, 2010 10:16 PM (QBQcg)
Why would Republicans support a candidate who supported the peodophile Mark Foley? Did we learn nothing from 2006 and Obama's safe for peodophiles school Czar?
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“We have plans to return to space,” said Zurab Mikvabia, director of the Institute of Experimental Pathology and Therapy in Georgia which supplied apes for the programme in the 1980s.
The Institute is in preliminary talks with Russia's Cosmonautics Academy about preparing monkeys for a simulated Mars mission that could lay the groundwork for sending an ape to the Red Planet, he said.
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Move over, Hollywood, it's Russia's turn to blow up an asteroid.
The nerd in me gets all giggly and happy at the thought of someone actually talking about sending a mission to an asteroid to knock it off course so it doesn't hit earth. The bigger nerd in me can't figure out why, when the calculated odds of the asteroid actually impacting earth are 1 in 250,000, a country would spend what will likely amount to billions of dollars on trying to deflect said asteroid from its path. The even bigger nerd in me is up in arms that it's a Russian idea and not an idea from NASA. (Of course, the pragmatist in me that doesn't want to waste NASA funding on a 1 in 250,000 chance is glad it's not NASA.)
So many conflicted inner nerds. I don't know what to do.
In October, NASA lowered the odds that Apophis could hit Earth in 2036 from a 1-in-45,000 as earlier thought to a 1-in-250,000 chance after researchers recalculated the asteroid's path. It said another close encounter in 2068 will involve a 1-in-330,000 chance of impact.
Without mentioning NASA findings, Perminov said that he heard from a scientist that Apophis is getting closer and may hit the planet. "I don't remember exactly, but it seems to me it could hit the Earth by 2032," Perminov said.
"People's lives are at stake. We should pay several hundred million dollars and build a system that would allow to prevent a collision, rather than sit and wait for it to happen and kill hundreds of thousands of people," Perminov said.
Scientists have long theorized about asteroid deflection strategies. Some have proposed sending a probe to circle around a dangerous asteroid to gradually change its trajectory. Others suggested sending a spacecraft to collide with the asteroid and alter its momentum, or using nuclear weapons to hit it.
Perminov wouldn't disclose any details of the project, saying they still need to be worked out. But he said the mission wouldn't require any nuclear explosions.
Hollywood action films "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon," have featured space missions scrambling to avoid catastrophic collisions. In both movies space crews use nuclear bombs in an attempt to prevent collisions.
"Calculations show that it's possible to create a special purpose spacecraft within the time we have, which would help avoid the collision without destroying it (the asteroid) and without detonating any nuclear charges," Perminov said. "The threat of collision can be averted."
Boris Shustov, the director of the Institute of Astronomy under the Russian Academy of Sciences, hailed Perminov's statement as a signal that officials had come to recognize the danger posed by asteroids.
"Apophis is just a symbolic example, there are many other dangerous objects we know little about," he said, according to RIA Novosti news agency.
Oh great. The people who gave us the Kursk & Chernobyl are going to blow up an asteroid for us? Great. What can go wrong?
Well for starters, they could blow it into a new orbit that has a 1:1 chance of hitting the earth, instead of the current 1:250,000. As we have learned since November of 2008........Not. All. "Changes". Are. Good. For. You.
Unfortunately for us, if teh Rooskies DO screw the pooch, we won't have Samantha & Colonel O'Neill around to save us from Apophis this time.
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In the world of competitive paper airplane throwing [there's such a thing as a "world of competitive paper airplane throwing"? -ed.], a 20-second flight is exceptional, 25 or better is world class.
Thirty is the stuff dreams are made of.
Only one man — Japanese paper airplane virtuoso Takuo Toda — has ever come close to breaking the 30-second barrier. On Sunday, he set a world record for a hand-launched plane made with only paper, but fell just short of the 30-second mark.
Toda, flying a 10-centimeter-long craft of his own design, made 10 attempts to break his own record of 27.9 seconds set earlier this year in Hiroshima but failed to best his previous mark, settling for a 26.1-second flight.
That was still the best ever recorded for a strictly paper-only craft. His 27.9 record was set with a plane that had tape on it.
[...]
Toda, an engineer, is the head of the Japan Origami Airplane Association and is virtually unmatched in his ability to fold paper aircraft.
In keeping with traditional rules of the ancient Japanese art of origami, he uses only one sheet of paper, which he does not cut or paste.
He flew two variations of his world record-setting paper airplane Sunday — the one he used to set the duration record in April and an updated version with a fin. His April mark was recognized by Guinness World Records.
He did not use tape Sunday, which is allowed by Guinness. He chose to forgo tape because he wanted to follow traditional origami rules. His 26.1 mark was the best ever for a plane without cellophane tape keeping it together. Toda had that previous best as well, just over 24 seconds.
"I will get the 30-second record," he said. "It's just a matter of time."
Toda said that the secret to throwing a paper airplane is to aim upward — not straight — so that it has time to gain altitude and slowly circle back to the ground. Toda appeared to be on his way to a record Sunday, but his second and best throw was ruled a foul because it hit a passenger jetliner parked nearby [I'm not even sure how that happens; why are they throwing paper airplanes on a tarmack? -ed.].
"It's really a sport," he said. "The throwing technique is very delicate."
Along with breaking the 30-second barrier, Toda said his next goal was to launch a paper airplane from space. With funding from Japan's space agency, JAXA, Toda and a team of scientists have designed a plane they believe can withstand the intense heat of re-entry.
One of Toda's designs was scheduled to be released from the International Space Station this year, but that plan fell through in part because of problems with devising a means of tracking the planes as they fell back to Earth.
Toda and his colleagues are currently trying to interest Chinese or Russian space officials in reviving the idea.
We let Russia beat us into space. We cannot let them beat us in the throwing-paper-airplanes-out-of-a-multi-billion-dollar-space-craft race. Something should be done about this!
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In some science olympiad competitions there are various measures for paper airplanes.
I can't remember the rules, but I think that it has to be a standard 8'1/2 by 11" sheet of copy paper.
You can cut it, tear it, bend it however you please, but the enter mass of the paper must be present.
You can also modify it with adhesives.
I think there were 5 competitions, that are then combined and compared and that is the winner.
Distance was one of them, period of flight was another, and I think "stability" was another, meaning you drop it virticaly and it has to correct itself and fly a horizontal distance.
I can't remember them, it wasn't one of my specialties.
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