On Saturday, December 14, 2013 9:22:19 PM UTC-8, William Mook wrote:
On Saturday, December 14, 2013 8:56:46 PM UTC-5, jacob navia wrote:

"Next year's NASA budget is poised to force premature cancellation of



either Curiosity or Cassini -- the agency's flagship missions. Funding



decisions get made behind closed doors, but projected figures reduce



Cassini's budget in 2014 by almost half, and half again in 2015, making



it impossible to fly. Even funding for analyzing data will be



"restructured," according to NASA."







http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/14/op...on/index..html



The decision to go off the gold standard, avoid the development of high temperature nuclear reactors, ending project NERVA and ROVER, and turning the far reaching New Frontier into a meaningless moon program combined with the decision to side track the development of coal conversion technology to make synthetic fuels at $8 per barrel, and outsource our industry and raw materials to thers, was when the decision was made to shut down America. We're just seeing the logical end point.

There were plenty of "panics" back in the era of the gold standard. Nuclear
tech is by its nature pretty nasty. Though liquid thorium reactor seem
to have promise provided they are at ground zero of nuke attack.
The best coal is coal left in the ground.

Don't get me wrong, I'd willing to use nuclear tech for propulsion.

Shipping the production jobs offshore was a first order mistake.
Resources and the means of production are the true wealth of
a nation in Ready Freddy sense.

Koch's, Krupps and class are the cause and the end point, in their
point of view in this and other eras. Will it work out for them
maybe. Will they work their will on the greater society to
an extent for sure.

Don't dance with Franz Von Poppen and the boys from Ruhr ........Trig