Discovery is in orbit

I wasn't able to identify the coastline, but it looked like they launched
north, toward Nova Scotia. There's a final burn in six minutes, to
circularize the orbit.

"Bluuuue Rajah" Bluuuuue@Rajah. wrote in message
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I wasn't able to identify the coastline, but it looked like they launched
north, toward Nova Scotia. There's a final burn in six minutes, to
circularize the orbit.


is it going to solve the financial crisis?

"Bluuuue Rajah" Bluuuuue@Rajah. wrote in message
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I wasn't able to identify the coastline, but it looked like they launched
north, toward Nova Scotia. There's a final burn in six minutes, to
circularize the orbit.

I can verify that it really happened and was not just some video trickery.
It looked very impressive from my front porch about 200 miles south of the
cape.

Vaughn

On Mar 15, 8:30*pm, "curious george" wrote:
is it going to solve the financial crisis?

In what way does flinging billions into empty space differ from the
current governments' take-2-billion-and-call-me-in-the-morning plan???

They don't launch the money, of course, it's all spent creating and
maintaining jobs here.

Jim Wilkins wrote in news:f5a9bd9e-c80b-42b6-8156-
:

On Mar 15, 8:30*pm, "curious george" wrote:
is it going to solve the financial crisis?

In what way does flinging billions into empty space differ from the
current governments' take-2-billion-and-call-me-in-the-morning plan???

If you have to ask, you can't understand.

On Mar 16, 7:47*am, Bluuuue Rajah Bluuuuue@Rajah. wrote:
Jim Wilkins wrote in news:f5a9bd9e-c80b-42b6-8156-
:

On Mar 15, 8:30*pm, "curious george" wrote:
is it going to solve the financial crisis?

In what way does flinging billions into empty space differ from the
current governments' take-2-billion-and-call-me-in-the-morning plan???

If you have to ask, you can't understand.

Rhetorical question, pathetical answer. Liberal arts majors don't get
jobs in the space program, so it's a total waste. They do in an
expanded government so it's a valuable benefit to society.

On Mar 15, 8:30*pm, "curious george" wrote:
"Bluuuue Rajah" Bluuuuue@Rajah. wrote in message

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I wasn't able to identify the coastline, but it looked like they launched
north, toward Nova Scotia. *There's a final burn in six minutes, to
circularize the orbit.

is it going to solve the financial crisis?

Well, lets look at the 1990s tech boom, Space Program microcomputers
helped with computer research, part of what led to that.

New technologies always spur economic growth as new goods are
produced, people are hired to make them, people are hired to sell
them, etc.

All sorts of stuff from Lexan plastic to wireless high bandwidth
transmissions have been influenced by the space program. They have had
economic impacts no doubt.

Really? What Space Program microcomputers helped the tech boom.

Lexan was created in 1953, long before the space race.



--
Greg Moore
Ask me about lily, an RPI based CMC.

"David E. Powell" wrote in message
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On Mar 15, 8:30 pm, "curious george" wrote:
"Bluuuue Rajah" Bluuuuue@Rajah. wrote in message

. 17.102...



I wasn't able to identify the coastline, but it looked like they
launched
north, toward Nova Scotia. There's a final burn in six minutes, to
circularize the orbit.

is it going to solve the financial crisis?

Well, lets look at the 1990s tech boom, Space Program microcomputers
helped with computer research, part of what led to that.

New technologies always spur economic growth as new goods are
produced, people are hired to make them, people are hired to sell
them, etc.

All sorts of stuff from Lexan plastic to wireless high bandwidth
transmissions have been influenced by the space program. They have had
economic impacts no doubt.

At least two microcomputer companies I know of were saved by the
space program. One of those was important in the development of
CD drives.

That someone might believe the space race had nothing to do with
improvements in lexan, and development of new processes for its
fabrication bogglers the mind.

Peter


On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:18:14 -0400, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
wrote:

Really? What Space Program microcomputers helped the tech boom.

Lexan was created in 1953, long before the space race.

Peter Skelton

If the fact that I rely on actual facts, not on anecdotes boggles your mind,
so be it.


--
Greg Moore
Ask me about lily, an RPI based CMC.

"Peter Skelton" wrote in message
...
At least two microcomputer companies I know of were saved by the
space program. One of those was important in the development of
CD drives.

That someone might believe the space race had nothing to do with
improvements in lexan, and development of new processes for its
fabrication bogglers the mind.

Peter


On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:18:14 -0400, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
wrote:

Really? What Space Program microcomputers helped the tech boom.

Lexan was created in 1953, long before the space race.

Peter Skelton