Yeh ... let private industry develop this new manned space flight. And
why won't they just do that on their own if it is such a great deal?
Because these private corps and their stockholders want the rest of us
... the taxpayers without bankruptcy protection who are just trying to
hang on to our mortgages/ pay for medical care etc ... to pay all the
setup costs so then they can't make a profit.
Such a deal! Just like the ones military industrial complex and
medical insurance industry rams down our throats.
Come back from outer space. We've got to get back to basics in this
country and postpone some of the things we want to do ... have been used
to doing ... until we have our "house in order."
This country has itself mortgaged to the hilt ... is totally dependent
on foreign competing nations for the security of it's economy and it
still has an ANOTHER unseen "mortgage" of international trade being
conducted in US dollars that is likely to come due if we don't get real
and start living by our means.
It's to our advantage that trade is in dollars and increasingly with our
economic slide to other nations disadvantage.
If we don't get our finances on solid footing again, the money making
countries will be adopting a different currency of exchange and our
system will take another HUGE dive once no one wants dollars anymore.
We in the US need to turn our attention from outer space to "inner
space" for a while or suffer the consequences me thinks...
Go to Mars when we've got affairs on Earth on solid footing again...
db
This BS system of corps using us
b_s-wilk wrote:
Energy is only as free as the technology to capture and distribute it.
The advantages in manufacturing are cancelled out by the costs. Are
the corporations that want to use microgravity for production going to
absorb all the risks? Or is this yet another example of socializing
risk with federal investment in R&D and privatizing the profits? Uh
oh. That gets us back to what's wrong with health insurance legislation.
Robots are as smart as the scientists who design them. Robots have
done well for us so far. Patience with the slow rate of advances for
human space travel will make travel safer and more productive in the
long run. Research now--travel later.
I have a ticket for travel to Mars that I got years ago at Cape
Canaveral. I'll send it to you if I can find it. Ready for a trip to
Mars? Imagine riding a bicycle on Mars! [The ticket for a flight to
the moon expired 10 years ago.]
Microgravity offers real advanages in alloy and semiconductor
maufacturing, also pharmaceuticals. We now know how to construct
large structures in orbit and maintain a long term presence in space.
Energy is unlimited and free. Four nations/national consortia can boost
cargo into orbit and to the station assuming JAXA's HTV is successful.
I see the potential as enormous. But we have to be there to realize it.
The ISS is a good start. If we look at it as a platform for the
assembly
of space-only ships, and as a fuel transfer point, we could explore the
L4 and L5 Lagrangian points. The moon is probably not a good idea
if we can't prove the presence of water.
Robots aren't smart enough to do it all, and if we look at this new
frontier as a government monopoly we are shortchanging ourselves.
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