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oh no watch out we got a badass over here!!!
why u no first!?
Err… I don’t understand where is the fail…
Canceling America’s program for manned space exploration.
Well yah … John Glenn is like 9,000 years old now. We COULD launch him into space, but I doubt he’d survive long enough to reach orbit.
Lol. Pedants of the world, unite!
He seemed to do alright when they sent him up in the shuttle a couple of years ago.
Private space companies are actually just now beginning to launch men in to orbit. You know, like, without the billions of dollars of taxpayer subsidies at a time when we have a 15 trillion dollar debt. Just sayin.
Um check your figures – NASA budget $518 million (that’s with an M) dollars annually. Money wasted on Solyndra – $500 million dollars. Foreign aid to Egypt – $1.6 billion dollars annually (with a B) and things are going great there. In the grand scheme of government spending money, $500 million isn’t much. And we get a lot more bang for our buck from NASA that pretty much anywhere else.
NASA budget = $18B (that’s with an B) dollars annually.
http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/516674main_NASAFY12_Budget_Estimates-Overview-508.pdf
Do some actual, you know, research?
Nope. I mean, I’ll concede that NASA’s budget is tiny compared to other things, but it doesn’t change the fact that the shuttle program was an immense failure that cost vastly too much to do vastly too little.
Contracting this stuff out to SpaceX gives vastly more “bang for the buck”, sorry.
Space is vast, eh?
The hell?
NASA’s budget is 18 BILLION (that’s with a B). $518 million won’t even get you a single shuttle launch. You’ve missed the mark by more than an order of magnitude. Do you just pull numbers out of your a**?
Not to discount the validity of your assertion, but from a Million to a Billion is three orders of magnitude.
And from 518 million to 5.18 billion is one order of magnitude. And 51.8 Billion would be 2 orders of magnitude. So?
I think you meant to say “We get a lot more TANG for our buck from NASA…”
I think we’ll get a lot more out of space exploration via robot, than astronauts. We’re in a time when even your surgeon doesn’t have to be in the same city as you, to perform the surgery. We ought to be taking advantage of our ability to NOT have to physically be somewhere. Cheap shot, Neil. Right on Pluto, wrong on spaceflight.
http://io9.com/5851956/must-watch-bill-nye-neil-degrasse-tyson-pamela-gay-and-lawrence-krauss-discuss-our-future-in-space
Already addressed by NDT and Bill Nye, Lawrence Krauss argues the exact same thing in the vid above. The problem is nobody gives a flying f**k if a robot lands on mars. Not normal citizens at the very least. Yes, it’s a fraction of the cost to send a robot vs a manned flight, but there is a very common perception that if humans don’t go there, it doesn’t count.
The USA launched Glenn into orbit? Impressive. This whole time I thought it was a rocket that did.
No, they got all the politicians in one place and used the hot air for a launch.
whoops, what happened there? /\
yeah they all looked up and fus ro dah’d him into space.
I think you just broke failblog.
it did that all by itself.
Failblog failing? How ironic.
Fail post. Mr. Tyson is correct, you fail.