I don't think it's humorous in the slightest. I was really hopping for it to be a sucessful recovery. Unfortunately that wasn't the result.
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Originally Posted by Jonsgirl
Poor NASA. You'd think they'd be getting better, not worse, at this whole space exploration thing.
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Give NASA back it's funding and they will get better.
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Originally Posted by guthmund
Wow, two parachutes.... 
I believed I mentioned a roving circus troupe....eh????
If NASA can help send this laundry list of stupid stuff into space, why not go ahead and send someone up to get the cosmic capsule?
I know they're terrified of a repeat of the recent shuttle tragedy, but eventually they're going to have to find a way back into space. Why not to fetch something they deem so incredibly important?
Surely a mission that spanned 3 years and cost millions of dollars is more important than fertilizing frog eggs, (/cue Star Wars music and give "jazz hands") IN SPACE!!!! |
I don't see how lifescience experiments qualify as "stupid stuff." While I agree that we should go up there and do something better, like explore Mars, the lifescience experiments are important as well. The thing is that politicians won't get their heads out of their butts for long enough to know that we could have gone to Mars in the '70 had they gotten just a little more funding. So due to that, we were stuck doing all the lifescience experiements and enduring more budget cutbacks for the past 30 years.