Comments on: wait, doesn’t an invention have to be new?

By: j

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:11:46 +0000

Nasa always needs more money to carry out all of its operations in space, politions are wrong. I have heard of difference between a soldier and a polition now lets count the space man and sceintist.

By: Water on the Moon « toxic culture

Water on the Moon « toxic culture — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:15:04 +0000

[...] beneath the Mare Tranquillitatis. Or maybe people will at least get fired up about space so that NASA is well funded for once and we can avoid the extermination of the species because of asteroids. Oh, and also, comets [...]

By: Uncle Al

Uncle Al — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:40:40 +0000

To navigate, one needs at least three pieces of data: 1) Where are you, 2) where do you want to be, 3) how do you get there. As with Southpark’s underwear elves, NASA only has parts (1) and (3). NASA is a Marketing Department marketing itself. Recursion: see recursion. End it, privatize the robot-launching remains. Stop pumping kilotonnes of chloride directly into the Ozone Layer (ammonium perchlorate oxidizer).

An advocate makes virtue of failure. The worse the cure the better the treatment – and the more Federal subsidy is required. There are no humans who are not cooked by radiation and who do not atrophy away from 1 gee. End the madness.

By: gfish

gfish — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:35:56 +0000

Al, we understand you’re not a fan of how the government operates. We really do. But when it comes to issues like the direction of the space program we need more than just ridicule. Anybody can do that. In fact, there are legions of political pundits who do just criticize for hours on end day in, day out. But that’s their only skill. Put them in charge, have them actually try to make something and they’ll fail spectacularly.

Although I dish out a fair amount of ridicule, I do try to offer solutions. They may not always be clear because my frustration can overtake my point and I start to resemble the pundits I was just criticizing, but I really do try to work on coming up with ideas. The issue here is not how bad or mismanaged NASA is, but what can be done to advance human spaceflight with better technology.

By: Uncle Al

Uncle Al — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:39:48 +0000

NASA is a toxic landfill of political patronage, corrupt and institutionally incompetent, the FEMA of low Earth orbit. “Constellation” is a Werner von Braun simulacrum substituting turds for sausages and eatng them with relish. Consider LCROSS finding water on the moon!!!.

The Centaur booster NASA impacted was tanked with 17,000 kg total of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen propellants. 90 kg of residual tankage, 0.5% residual, in the 31,000 lb Centaur booster was what NASA “detected” after impact combustion. Excavation of 350 metric tons of lunar regolith to obtain 90 kg of water vapor would be 250 parts-per-million water – meaningless to any local astronaut.

An asstronaught riding atop Ares would be reduced to bloody tapioca plastered upon capsule walls. There remain vibration “issues.” It costs more to recover and refurbish the booster section than it does to fabricate it, plus 500+ kg of payload lost to the recovery package. More studies are needed. Got any friends who are owed cumshaw?