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Offline Corsair

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on: April 06, 2005, 06:11:28 pm
WE'RE GOING BACK INTO SPACE!!

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/04/06/shuttle.rollout/index.html

Here's to STS-114 and a successful return! *toasts*

also, www.nasa.gov of course.

*gets really excited*
Wash: This landing's gonna get pretty interesting.
Mal: Define "interesting".
Wash: *shrug* "Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die"?
Mal: This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then... explode.
 

Offline aldo_14

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Reply #1 on: April 06, 2005, 06:14:22 pm
*fingers firmly crossed*

Good to hear, albeit I think they should look at possible replacements anyways (simply to give something cool to look at :D )
 

Offline Ford Prefect

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Reply #2 on: April 06, 2005, 06:17:37 pm
Bah. What we need is new shuttles. As if that's going to happen.
"Mais est-ce qu'il ne vient jamais à l'idée de ces gens-là que je peux être 'artificiel' par nature?"  --Maurice Ravel
 

Offline Blitzerland

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Reply #3 on: April 06, 2005, 06:18:08 pm
Awesome. They had better accomplish something, since they happen to be taking down the Hubble.
 

Offline BlackDove

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Reply #4 on: April 06, 2005, 06:22:59 pm
When are they going to stop launching shuttles and rockets for Christ's sake. I know that it takes money to switch because you've already got the useless ramps and ****, and spare shuttles that you were stupid enough to make, but seriously, enough is enough.

With that said, I hope that people don't die in this one, as they did in the one before.
 

Offline Blitzerland

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Reply #5 on: April 06, 2005, 06:23:52 pm
They say, if we continue living as we do now, we'll run out of resources by 2050.

Even if it seems far-fetched, space-travel is neccessary...
 

Offline Grey Wolf

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Reply #6 on: April 06, 2005, 07:49:45 pm
Basically, the shuttle needs to be replaced. It's thirty year old techology. Your home computer easily beats the shuttle's in processing power. Also, you could probably make a more efficient design now.
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" -George Bernard Shaw
  

Offline Turnsky

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Reply #7 on: April 06, 2005, 07:57:54 pm
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Originally posted by Grey Wolf
Basically, the shuttle needs to be replaced. It's thirty year old techology. Your home computer easily beats the shuttle's in processing power. Also, you could probably make a more efficient design now.


that's the problem the shuttle, even with its inefficiencies... works. i don't doubt that it will be replaced.. hopefully by nasa itself, as the current shuttle design was made with hauling spy satellites in mind.

that said, it's also the only thing big enough to take the modules for the ISS up into space.

so i think a lot of research will have to be done on this one..
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Offline Grey Wolf

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Reply #8 on: April 06, 2005, 08:00:26 pm
They had a successor in the pipeline, but it was cancelled due to cost overruns, if I remember correctly.
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" -George Bernard Shaw
 

Offline Turnsky

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Reply #9 on: April 06, 2005, 08:00:51 pm
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Originally posted by Grey Wolf
They had a successor in the pipeline, but it was cancelled due to cost overruns, if I remember correctly.


oh yes... money


the only real thing that will get us up to the stars, will be just simple, human greed. the illustrious search for new worlds and stuff will be secondary... remember how much of the inner US was colonised.. during the gold rush..

"there be gold in dem thar planets!"
:p
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Offline vyper

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Reply #10 on: April 06, 2005, 08:06:34 pm
In true human fashion there are two things that will drive outward expansion (if British Imperialism has taught me anything): Greed as already stated but also for power reputation and status as much as wealth, and the drive to extend the reach of our own belief systems (i.e. Missionaries: The Next Generation).
"But you live, you learn.  Unless you die.  Then you're ****ed." - aldo14
 

Offline Grey Wolf

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Reply #11 on: April 06, 2005, 08:16:36 pm
Who are they going to convert? Martian bacteria?
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" -George Bernard Shaw
 

Offline Ace

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Reply #12 on: April 06, 2005, 08:17:56 pm
Them heathen robot landers don't worship Robot Jesus(tm) and must be converted!
Ace
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-Alfred Hitchcock
 

Offline vyper

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Reply #13 on: April 06, 2005, 08:14:59 pm
Er, any sentient life we find? Our own colonists? I was just using the missionaries as an example of how we would expand.
"But you live, you learn.  Unless you die.  Then you're ****ed." - aldo14
 

Offline Ford Prefect

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Reply #14 on: April 06, 2005, 08:21:08 pm
We have to start relocating before the Vogons begin their demolition.
"Mais est-ce qu'il ne vient jamais à l'idée de ces gens-là que je peux être 'artificiel' par nature?"  --Maurice Ravel
 

Offline Turnsky

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Reply #15 on: April 06, 2005, 08:22:59 pm
great, space mormons..
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Offline Grey Wolf

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Reply #16 on: April 06, 2005, 08:29:26 pm
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Originally posted by Ace
Them heathen robot landers don't worship Robot Jesus(tm) and must be converted!
We believe he was built, and that he was a very well programmed robot, but he was not our messiah.
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" -George Bernard Shaw
 

Offline Ghost

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Reply #17 on: April 06, 2005, 08:39:15 pm
Heh.. space mormons. Good one. Anyway, my opinion on this is that they need to make a better ship... hopefully that X-Prize thing'll go through. Anywho... ****ing aliens. And you guys are all focused on Mars.. there's nothing there but red. There won't be life inside our solar system... Leastways nothing noticable. It'd be pretty cool if we eventually found something like the Vasudans.



Finding something like the Shivans would suck.
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Offline vyper

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Reply #18 on: April 06, 2005, 08:40:25 pm
Cause a 14-year war with Vasudans would be so cool instead? :wtf:
"But you live, you learn.  Unless you die.  Then you're ****ed." - aldo14
 

Offline Ace

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Reply #19 on: April 06, 2005, 08:42:41 pm
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Originally posted by Grey Wolf
We believe he was built, and that he was a very well programmed robot, but he was not our messiah.


You shall repent your ways and worship of the false gods, and embrace the true love of Robot Jesus(tm). Lest your immortal programming burn in the lake of fire that is Mac OS, forever!

Inquisition, here we go...

Inquisition, what a show...

Remember that the pain is only temporary, and necessary to purify your source code, and that Robot Jesus(tm) loves you!
Ace
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