[QUOTE=Biotoxsin;27184690]Has anyone had sex (or tried to have)in space yet?[/QUOTE]No there was only one couple allowed in space because they got married right before the launch. Sex + space = bad. How would you get a bonner?
Good God, finally. These things were never meant to last beyond the early 90's. We're in the teens of the next century before they break. We really shouldn't be using them anymore, but those shuttles are amazing machines.
Can we just get a new type of spacecraft already.
Shuttles Are Awesome. But as the guy above me said we need to use Some of those cool designs they promise.
[editline]4th January 2011[/editline]
Can we just get a new type of spacecraft already.
Shuttles Are Awesome. But as the guy above me said we need to use Some of those cool designs they promise.
[QUOTE=superdinoman;27172151]These orbiters suck and I dont wanna pay for them anymore.[/QUOTE]
They are almost 40 years old now amazingly. This was NASA'a first reusable sapcecraft, of course they suck now. They are worn out. The US can't jsut stop using them immediately, it leaves a giant gap in their space program and countries like Korea and India laugh at them when they can launch their own rockets but the US can't.
There is a mix of politics and money which explain why we are and are not replacing the shuttles yet.
At this point I wouldn't feel safe on the Discovery
I still find it amazing that in 1976, a bunch of aquatic apes managed to launch a tiny probe across the vastness of space, land it on Mars and collect a sample all remotely. Almost 40 years later we still haven't done anything useful.
[QUOTE=animephreak135;27182656]I can't stop laughing at this guy's expression.
[img_thumb]http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/5250/astrodowns.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE]
He'll bust a cap in yo ass.
[QUOTE=The golden;27173021]The world needs another space-race. So many neat things were invented and done.[/QUOTE]
Alot of great things have been invented. They just cannot be developed more futher because the government doesn't fund those projects due to lack of the space-race.
What the U.S is doing right now is trying to make profit by sending corporation's crap into the space.
So if you have money and use for a satellite or similiar thing, you can send it to space just by contacting the nasa.
But the main problem is still the rockets. The fuel costs, the engines are inneffective and the rockets wont last.
What we need is spacecrafts which work with kinetic motors, This basically means a motor which makes the craft move by colliding high speed objects. With well done math the craft should be pulled by the colliding force to a wanted direction.
The problem with this is idea is that we lack the needed materials which would last in such use.
Another good idea is the explosion based engines, Where an explosion occuring behind the craft pushes it forward.
So if we used antimatter the explosion could be powerful enough to do the job, But antimatter is still too expensive to be used as "fuel" in such engines.
Also, The human body can't take violent changes in the enviroment, so even when we have all these wonderful ideas, we can't really use them because the astronauts would die.
I think the nasa should now focus on developing technology which keeps the astronauts alive in these conditions.
How? I don't know, maybe they could modify human genes so that they would be able to produce vegetable humans for testing.
I wish the UK would get a space program.
Too bad the government gives too much money away to people who can't be bothered working and rapes it away from hard-working people.
I certainly hope they can get Discovery up and running safely. Would be poetic for her to be the last mission.
This "Ship wrecked before last mission thing" reminds me of The Wreck of the River of Stars.
First, a tiny failure, then it all snowballs.
[QUOTE]And so for a brief time Hand achieved what he had set out to achieve. Gorgas pondered contingencies; and Satterwaithe marshaled the resources to meet them, and Corrigan saw the facts with cold-eyed clarity. Bhatterji improvised brilliant solutions from data The Lotus Jewel fed him, and Ratline did what he had to do. It was a fine effort they made and it would have been finer still had they succeeded; but it came too late and they perished, and the broken wreck of The River of Stars arced thereafter for many years across the empty reaches of the Middle System until rediscovered entirely by chance. But Ship knew, and Ship remembered, and Ship pondered all things in its core.[/QUOTE]
It will end like this. It has a certain symmetry to it.
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;27173547]Let's just get rid of the Shuttle altogether and replace it with a Falcon 9 rocket.
[img_thumb]http://www.planet-techno-science.com/wp-content/upLoads/falcon_9.jpg[/img_thumb]
Mainly because SpaceX is actually doing things right because it doesn't have to fight against hordes of Senators trying to shut down the space program.[/QUOTE]
People want to shut down the space program because NASA is infective and broken, space needs to be a goal of private companies now, that is the only way you will see rapid progression and true advancement is if it becomes profitable for corporations.
We can only hope that chinas space program goes well because their plans about using space as a source for raw materials and the moon as a place to refine them is what is going to revolutionize us as a global economy.
[editline]5th January 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=papu2;27211076]Alot of great things have been invented. They just cannot be developed more futher because the government doesn't fund those projects due to lack of the space-race.
What the U.S is doing right now is trying to make profit by sending corporation's crap into the space.
So if you have money and use for a satellite or similiar thing, you can send it to space just by contacting the nasa.
But the main problem is still the rockets. The fuel costs, the engines are inneffective and the rockets wont last.
What we need is spacecrafts which work with kinetic motors, This basically means a motor which makes the craft move by colliding high speed objects. With well done math the craft should be pulled by the colliding force to a wanted direction.
The problem with this is idea is that we lack the needed materials which would last in such use.
Another good idea is the explosion based engines, Where an explosion occuring behind the craft pushes it forward.
So if we used antimatter the explosion could be powerful enough to do the job, But antimatter is still too expensive to be used as "fuel" in such engines.
Also, The human body can't take violent changes in the enviroment, so even when we have all these wonderful ideas, we can't really use them because the astronauts would die.
I think the nasa should now focus on developing technology which keeps the astronauts alive in these conditions.
How? I don't know, maybe they could modify human genes so that they would be able to produce vegetable humans for testing.[/QUOTE]
Or we can use chimpanzees.............. that was kind of an obvious solution you just blew right past.
Also corporations are the future of space based research.
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