Amazing achievement. Mind you, it's not rocket science, is it?

I hope after all that they don't stall the engine...

jamesg1213


Amazing achievement. Mind you, it's not rocket science, is it?

Thanks James I need a smile

I think it's a great idea... I mean, we've only doubled the National Debt in less then 4 years...

which means if we get 4 MORE years that should grow exponentially..
There's only millions of people without jobs here in the US.

So what's a few Billion dollars to look at dust on a rock millions of miles
away that we can never get to, nor should we care about?

After all, it's just YOUR money, so why should you care?

While we get plagued with "please give" and "help us"...
Starving people, diseases, animal cruelty..."won't you donate"...
while our governments spend billions on this.
I'm all for exploration but there's a time and place for everything and
when I'm getting begged for help from people with serious issues that
really need help now.......nevermind, it must be rocket science.

spacey


While we get plagued with "please give" and "help us"...
Starving people, diseases, animal cruelty..."won't you donate"...
while our governments spend billions on this.
I'm all for exploration but there's a time and place for everything and
when I'm getting begged for help from people with serious issues that
really need help now.......nevermind, it must be rocket science.

+1

$2.6 billion is approx 0.04% of the total US expenditure for one year. Looking at it another way, it's 12 cents per person living in the US. Just thought I'd lob that in.

Hi,
 
When you got the money ... use it!
 
Better story was one in Guam from a friend in Santa Barbara that was stationed there after his tour in VeitNam, and he was speaking like he knew about this kind of stuff ... so at the end of the year, their budget had about 1.3 million left over. So they build a wall on the edge of the beach to separate it from the road, that is about 24 inches high, and it is about a mile long ... and that f_____g wall is the straightest line you will ever find in your whole life. It is a "perfect wall" ... and the budget was saved!
 
Not suggesting that there are green men in mars or bacteria that we can save the world with ... but what the heck ... when the money is there you do it!
 
Some of that money, btw, is private, as there are some companies that are adding their own money as investment to the rockets and the science experiments involved, all of which will likely get further use in the future in more universe exploration.
 
Personally, I don't mind searching the cosmos ... I do think that when it comes to the "future", it is no different than your children ... how much do you care about their time and place and chance? Yes, we can not see it, and neither can they ... but any attempt to learn is better than wasting on f_____g bombs for religion, or for some groups that want to keep women hidden and locked up, or for _______________________________________ ... you name it!

There are an estimated 560,000 people that will die
from cancer this year.
If we asked them if we should put the money into Mars
or cancer research ( that could benefit other peoples too)
to the tune of 2.6 billion do ya really think they care if it's
.12 cents per person? Or do ya think that finding cures
is more important?
The government has given their answer and I don't recall ever
being asked.....and it's my 12 cents.
 
 
And not to nit-pick...there are about 150 million taxpayers in the US.
So for what it's worth $17.00 is a little closer.
( and not all of them pay...that's just the ones that filed)

Moshkiae


Hi,
 
or for _______________________________________ ... you name it!

____________________________ = Bapu's new bazz.