Wanna Build a Rocket? NASA’s About to Give Away a Mountain of Its Code - Polidicks

Does this mean that they have systems 100x more advanced that they won't release for another 30 years?

[QUOTE=OvB;44457467]"NASA" Rockets are made by for-profit companies that make nuclear delivery systems and planes designed to bomb and destroy. Then there's SpaceX, Orbital, and Virgin Galactic. For-profit companies that want to use their profit to make space easier. Naaaah, let's keep launching on inefficient, over-priced, relics of the past from companies who developed said technology for the soul purpose of killing Russians by the millions all because people want to feel the nostalgia of the days when NASA only existed to beat the commies. [editline]5th April 2014[/editline] Never mind the fact if spacex was given the EELV contract ULA was given it would have saved the taxpayers [I] $11.6 billion dollars.[/I][/QUOTE] i've no problem with corporations building and designing spacecraft - there's no reason that we should hold back the technology, but i don't want the first astronaut on mars to be an employee of spacex - that seems wrong

[QUOTE=BrainDeath;44462559]i've no problem with corporations building and designing spacecraft - there's no reason that we should hold back the technology, but i don't want the first astronaut on mars to be an employee of spacex - that seems wrong[/QUOTE] Why does it matter who lands first? NASA is funded by the general population, most of whom don't give a crap about space, SpaceX is funded by people who actually care about technological advancement. Arguably, SpaceX is doing it for potential profit, but NASA is being allowed to do it because the government sees what it's doing as a potential for profit just the same; they just see it as being less profitable so they withhold funding as a result of that opinion.

[QUOTE=BrainDeath;44462559]i've no problem with corporations building and designing spacecraft - there's no reason that we should hold back the technology, but i don't want the first astronaut on mars to be an employee of spacex - that seems wrong[/QUOTE] Why? do they have to be "American" or "Russian" in order to be right?

[QUOTE=Elecbullet;44452582][img]http://facepunch.com/fp/browser/firefox.png[/img] Yeah free and open source software is bad, that's why the browser you're currently using is exploited every day - oh wait[/QUOTE] are you stupid? the reason you have to update every fucking week or so is because of this. Dont forget the reason silkroad seized. A fucking JS bug.