First man made object to land on a comet

[little graham]

Education, infrastructure, proper law enforcement and government are the first steps to fixing these nations,
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America doesn't have that yet. Big stink trying to teach evolution in schools, rather than creationism.


900 billion poured directly into NASA coffers. Let alone all the money they made from the technology developed from those taxes. How much did America spend destroying IRAQ in 2003. A few trillion?
Australia is now spending 600 million a year cleaning it up. Yet our health system, our education, our industry and our science are all recieving massive cuts to help pay for that.

 

[little graham]

The rates of mental illness as a result of the battle of Okinawa were some of the highest ever recorded

What about the rates of mental illness amongst survivors of the nuclear attack on Japan? Have you investigated those stats? 40 years after the bombings there was a massive spike in brain cancers, do you know about that?

Have you seen the health effects still happening to citizens around Hannaford where the first reactor that supplied these weapons is based? What about the rates of mental illness amongst families devastated by birth defects cancer and cardio vascular diseases caused from that plant. The rate of mental illness amongst residents in the firing line, if that plant goes bang?

Have you ever heard of Hannaford?

The most toxic and voluminous nuclear waste in the U.S.—208 million liters —sits in decaying underground tanks at the Hanford Site (a nuclear reservation) in southeastern Washington State. It accumulated there from the middle of World War II, when the Manhattan Project invented the first nuclear weapon, to 1987, when the last reactor shut down.

For one thing, there’s a chance that enough plutonium could congregate to trigger a nuclear chain reaction, or criticality—the self-sustaining cascade of atomic fission that releases massive amounts of energy

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hanford-nuclear-cleanup-problems/

 

[Quivorir]

Holy shit man **** off. This is a thread about landing a ****ing space ship on a moving comet, not the governments spending.

 

[little graham]

Searching and exploring the unknown for answers gives hope to many, and in my opinion offers one of the few possibilities for humanity to be united and transcend its current issues.
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Due to security concerns, all researchers from the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are prohibited from working with Chinese citizens affiliated with a Chinese state enterprise or entity.[17] In April 2011, the 112th United States Congress banned NASA from using its funds to host Chinese visitors at NASA facilities.[18] In March 2013, the U.S. Congress passed legislation barring Chinese nationals from entering NASA facilities without a waiver from NASA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_space_program


The space race is response to those issues, always has been and is just making things worse. Your interest is emotional, transcends any morals you may have. The whole Chinese space program started from its need to defend itself from american aggression, aggression that used NASA weaponry and technology. Remember, the americans threatened them with nukes in the 50's.They had to take it seriously.


China are interested in the moon for the next generation of nuclear reactors and other resources. America are interested in the same things. Nothing humanitarian about the new space race, which is and always has been an arms race.

 

[volcboy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_space_program


The space race is response to those issues, always has been and is just making things worse. Your interest is emotional, transcends any morals you may have. The whole Chinese space program started from its need to defend itself from american aggression, aggression that used NASA weaponry and technology. Remember, the americans threatened them with nukes in the 50's.They had to take it seriously.


China are interested in the moon for the next generation of nuclear reactors and other resources. America are interested in the same things. Nothing humanitarian about the new space race, which is and always has been an arms race.

So, do you think that the Americans and Russians were collaborating in the 50's to 70's? No, but it didn't stop progress; quite the opposite. Maybe a bit of healthy competition is just what the Americans need to stop cutting their program.

Whether or not the information is gathered by the U.S. or China matters little to humanity as a whole.

Humans are naturally aggressive and competitive due to the structure of their brains (reptilian origins onwards). Whether or not we, as a civilization, can overcome our baser fear-driven urges with the logical, conscious parts of our brain is an open question. My interest is cerebral and logical; all technologies have a range of applications with different outcomes. It has nothing to do with my morals at all as to how such technology is used by others.

As someone trained in physics (amongst other things), does that make me morally responsible for nuclear weapons just because I know how to make one but chooses not to? Or as someone trained in chemistry who could manufacture pure crystal meth (i.e. Breaking Bad) but chooses not to, I am morally responsible for the ice epidemic? Ridiculous, illogical sentiments.

 

[little graham]

n what some see as symbolic of an often-aimless space program, NASA was allowed to complete construction of a $343-million rocket-testing tower in Mississippi even after the structure’s mission was cancelled in 2010.

Politicians in Washington, who had long treated NASA as a playground for pet spending projects, conjured up what they called a “Space Launch System” to replace Constellation - or, more aptly, to buoy construction plans in their districts.

US Sen. Roger Wicker, of Mississippi, was able to keep the Gulfport test tower under construction despite no apparent need for the massive structure.

http://rt.com/usa/214943-nasa-tower-construction-closed/

There’s no ‘why’” in NASA anymore, said Lori Garver, the second-in-command at the agency from 2009 to 2013.
Now, there is only “how,” she said, or a sense that something big has to be done.

“And the ‘how’ is all about the [construction] contracts and the members of Congress,” she added, referring to pork projects that members of Congress have proposed amid NASA’s mission drift.

 

[little graham]

For those of you wondering why they call the main craft 'rossetta"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off_on_a_Comet

The story starts with a comet called Gallia, that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. The disaster occurred on January 1 of the year 188x in the area around Gibraltar.

Published in 1877.