So, NASA for some reason still flys planes. No idea why they are wasting fuel. Probably looking for a job, as they aren't in the satellite launching business anymore, they were 10 times more expensive than a company that had to start from scratch and wasn't furnished with a tax payer paid for Cape Canaveral, and Space Center Houston.
They have a bit of a landing gear problem, Maybe they should simply resign from wasting tax payer dollars on stupid shit, and not try to get funding for a mission to mars
Interestingly the NASA plane in question traces its roots back to the English Electric Canberra jet, the late 1940s successor to the famous de Havilland Mosquito. The RAF only retired their last ones in 2006. The US license produced it for the USAF, and NASA still flies three of them. Or two, for the time being....
ReplyDeleteAll those in favour ? The ayes have it!
ReplyDeleteNASA: National AERONAUTICS and Space Administration. It is responsible for civil space exploration, aeronautics research, and space science.
ReplyDeleteSpace X is a commercial enterprise dedicated to making $ (as all private enterprises are). It does not do EXPLORATION, RESEARCH or SCIENCE. In other words Space X is NASA's delivery boy.
Space X exists BECAUSE of the research that NASA did over decades that allowed the development of all Space X technology. Space X didn't start from scratch. Space X built impressive technology and capabilities ON TOP of the technology, science and research that NASA did over 60+ years.
without looking it up, tell me ten things that the Aeronautics area of NASA has done that you already know of. You can't. They haven't accomplished a damn thing, but waste money.
DeleteDo they explore civil space? No. They have nothing to explore. They haven't explored a damn thing. Yes, they put a dune buggy on the moon. And played a round of golf. Whoppity effing doo. What did they research on the moon? How deep the dust is? Nope. How much stuff there is on the moon? There's nothing but craters and shadows, and sunlight. Never has been anything there, never will be anything there, well, except the junk we left behind, like that golf ball, putter, and dune buggy. Yes, the photo and the footsteps and the lander., whatever. There's nothing on the moon that is meaningful, and they didn't explore for minerals, ores, etc. What science did they do on the moon? None. Figure out how far an astronaut can bounce? Who is that info useful to, except the other astronauts who are already there, and already discover how far they can bounce. No one is going back, why? There's nothing there.
So, you're having a snit fit that Space X doesn't do Exploration. NASA has done no exploration in 50 years. Research? What exactly has the research by NASA accomplished in the last 30 years? Besides killing shuttle crews? Nothing accomplished on the international space station has made the news. Just astronauts wasting tax dollars so they can entertain school kids with drinking floating blobs of water, and making a bb chain spin and verify someone's theory about wave theory, or something else that is equally useless for the human race. What has they science accomplished on the space station, or the shuttles, or on the moon? Nothing. Show me one disease that's been cured, oh, you can't. One genetic thing fixed, one medical accomplishment of significance, one agricultural, metalurgical? Hydrological? Musical? Face it, at most you've got the space pen, and we already had grease pencils, and other similar writing tools.
Oh, is Space X a delivery boy? Yeah, for a geriatric useless fat old goat who can't get off the welfare line. NASA is useless, and a drain on taxpayers. It can't make a rocket launch nearly twice the price of a Space X launch, because it's all govt contract purchased parts of BLOAT. It couldn't design a replacement for the shuttle, because it's USLESS. Space X and it's contemporaries exist because NASA was a waste of money, and a waste of time. And THEN they killed a shuttle crew and were gutted of funds to do shit, once the govt and the country realized NASA was done. Nothing exists of the great days of Armstrong and Yeager. The legends are gone, NASA is a rotted corpse, it can't even land a simple damn plane. Exhibit A for the blind? See above belly landing.
Your nonsense about Space X existing because of NASA "allowing" jack shit? What are you smoking? NASA existed because of the research of the Von Braun rocket experiments, and that's really what Space X has as a foundation, a fundamental starting point. NASA couldn't land a damn shuttle without it exploding over Texas, can't land a X57 without a belly flop, and Space X is reusing rockets, landing them vertically, and NASA ain't got a damn thing to do with that.
You're ballyhooing about Space X didn't start from scratch? Yeah, they did. You don't know much. NASA didn't start from scratch, they stole the research from the Nazis. So, who started from scratch? Von Braun. Learn some history before you come at me. NASA? More of a joke than your limited comprehension of what NASA is... useless.
Oh, and guess what, people that can't use their name in the comments section don't get a 2nd comment posted.
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