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Originally posted by Shaw:
Is it me or should pres. bush be more concerned with International Affairs...LIKE THE WAR???? i could give a rats ass about the fucking moon...get the job done in the middle east and get our soldiers back...that should be a #1..no the US Space Program
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Originally posted by VOL:
No #1 should be domestic issues like homelessness and the economy. He does have his priorities mixed up. Typical Bush.
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Dumbasses, at no point did he say it was our number one concern. In fact, he'll actually have very little to do with it. It's simply setting the course for NASA, an individual agency. NASA has nothing to do with Iraq or the economy, so in no way will it be detering from it.
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Originally posted by Fruitacious B:
I don't stop halfway to get in another car, but I wouldn't buy a car with a bigger gas tank, when I could just as easily refuel while on my way there with the car I already have.
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That "car you already have". Is it the Apollo (which doesn't exist anymore) or the space shuttle (which has blow up two times)?
You have to get a new car, and the most logical route is to have a car which will get you all the way there.
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Originally posted by Fruitacious B:
Yes, we have been there a bunch of times. So why is it going to take another eleven years for us to go there again if it was so easy to go there "a bunch of times" before?
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Because we don't currently have something which can get us there, we have to update technology, and this time we're trying to colonize it.