On Saturday, December 14, 2013 9:53:19 PM UTC-8, Wrong Stuff wrote:
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...ion/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.

I meant if the reactor wasn't at ground zero but in a sense it
works other way around. Maybe a Austrian/Freudian slip?


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