Well done US govt.

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Originally Posted by Steel_Tomb

You would think that they don't want any space flight to go on the way they're going. They're scrapping the shuttles, want to scrap the new rocket and they're also talking about dismantling the ISS too. FFS just disband NASA whilst you at it too.

Space flight and exploration is key to the survival of this species, if we don't get our act together soon then we'll be stuck on this rock when it all goes tits up and we start dieing off. This planet isn't going to support us forever, we will have destroyed it and then shot ourselves in the foot by not investing in ways to escape. At present there is no way to escape Earth's gravity without using a lot of rocket fuel, so when we run out of fossil fuels and haven't invested in other means of getting up there we are f**ked to be honest... and then what will we do when there are too many of us? Oh that's right, kill each other... game on.

The technology is there to make space exploration happen, but the religious nuts and the tight arse w****** in government don't want to make it happen. If we could go to the Moon in the 1960's I think we can do a much better job now... we just need to give NASA a half decent budget instead of forcing them to cancel projects.

No Steel Thomb, that's not essencial for this species survival, you've been watching to many eps of "Andromeda", it's just a question of taking care of our environment and cleaning our act up together...

Although I don't see anything wrong with the investment on rresearch mind you, quite the opposite! I also think there would be nothing wrong with a Global Space Organization or something like that...