Award

[Anonymous]

... and in the category of "most obvious waste of american taxpayers' money, $200 millions and more" the winner is:

The crashed Genesis capsule !

Let's give it up for the Nasa engineers !  (and the crowd goes wild).

[Anonymous]

Go NASA. And they plan to get those floating bricks (Space Shuttle) back into orbit?

Hip, Hip, ahhh screw it. Nasa Blows.

[Anonymous]

they crashed something else now? man, Nasa is really on the ball.  Someone really needs to confiscate that marijuana.

[Anonymous]

Yeesh, if there weren't enough people against the space program before there might be now.

[Anonymous]

Yeah... I mean, it's not like we really need to go tossing spaceships around as if to say we declare war on space

[Anonymous]

yeah, and now they're going to scare people wiht a fake deadly space radiation story like they did with the shuttle, so nobody steals the billion-dollar secrets.

Speaking of which, the X-Prize is the shiznite!

[Anonymous]

oooo star wars err umm i mean uhh.... whated they blow up this time? well how do you exspect to look at pictures of mars and never touch foot because were 2 lazy to send somebody 2 mars...i could care less how long it takes grr.

[Anonymous]

oooo star wars err umm I mean uhh.... whated they blow up this time? well how do you exspect to look at pictures of mars and never touch foot because were 2 lazy to send somebody 2 mars...I could care less how long it takes grr.

Hybrid please, I can't understand you, you need to stop mumbling.

Anyway, money put into NASA should definately be lowered down abit.But there should be still enough being put in to continue technology advancement.The resources on earth will not last forever, and we will someday need to move to another planet, or gather resources for another planet and bring them back to earth.

[Anonymous]

They actually have the technology and means to send a man to Mars. the only problem is they're not willing to pay for it. By spending al lof this mopney on a failed capsule, they could ahve been saving it up so that we could get actual live information, not just photos aan the such.

[Anonymous]

Yea thats funny on so many levels,

 sad thing is ...i used to Intern for NASA back in college....i'm still in awe that we actually landed someone on the moon....no communication over there whatsoever...

[Anonymous]

we wudnt have to worry so much about finding another planet to live on if we stop misusing earth's valuable resources.

[Anonymous]

we wudnt have to worry so much about finding another planet to live on if we stop misusing earth's valuable resources.

A valuable point, but this would not satisfy our thirst for understanding the unknown.

With that said, I found this:

"It takes between six months and a year to get to Mars now. People will breathe and communicate the way they do on the space shuttle. They will carry their oxygen and communicate by radio"

So it is a definitive possibility. We just need to learn and deploy parachutes first.

[Anonymous]

Well it seems like most of the payload is intact.

There's a bunch of canisters containing isotopes that made it without being damaged.

That's a freaking miracle.

It's like a dozen of egg that would remain intact after a car crash.

I guess it's less of a waste than we thought.

[Anonymous]

We really need to continue our space missions.

It makes me sad that we've become so earth-centric that no one even pays attention to space anymore.  I recall when I was very very little watching the countdown to take offs on TV.  It was a huge deal and everyone was so excited at our achievement and the options that became available.  Now it seems like old hat and I'm thinking all those sci-fi books with space conflicts are going along a different universal story line  :<

[Anonymous]

We really need to continue our space missions.

It makes me sad that we've become so earth-centric that no one even pays attention to space anymore.  I recall when I was very very little watching the countdown to take offs on TV.  It was a huge deal and everyone was so excited at our achievement and the options that became available.  Now it seems like old hat and I'm thinking all those sci-fi books with space conflicts are going along a different universal story line  :<

I thik that before we go to other planets, we need to fix all of the shit on our planet.

When 1 BILLION people don't have water on Earth, why the hell should we be looking for water on Mars?