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On 26 Jan 2005 03:06:50 GMT, in a place far, far away, "Jorge R.
Frank" made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: Nice. 18 x $400m = $7,200,000,000 worth of Shuttle flights to support a worthless space station that has cost $150b so far. Wrong numbers. 6 years x $4b/year = $24 billion for the shuttle program through 2010. But the space station program has not cost anywhere near $150b so far. In fact, it has yet to crack $50b: $9b for 1984-93, roughly $2b/year since. Only if you don't count the costs of Shuttle, required to actually deliver and assemble it. |
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On 26 Jan 2005 03:21:20 GMT, in a place far, far away, "Jorge R.
Frank" made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: Wrong numbers. 6 years x $4b/year = $24 billion for the shuttle program through 2010. But the space station program has not cost anywhere near $150b so far. In fact, it has yet to crack $50b: $9b for 1984-93, roughly $2b/year since. Only if you don't count the costs of Shuttle, required to actually deliver and assemble it. OK, then throw in 3/4 of the shuttle budget from 1998-2003. You still don't get anywhere near $150b. True. You don't even crack fifty. |
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The sooner it dies, the sooner we get a next generation space telescope,
hopefully launched with a conventional booster and not limited in size by the shuttle bay. (Or an interferometric pair of space telescopes!) -- Charlie Springer |
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On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 04:11:48 +0000 (UTC), in a place far, far away,
(Eric Chomko) made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: : : The war is important. NASA isn't. : : I think you have it backwards. : It doesn't matter what you think. It only matters what the : politicians and people who vote for them think. Me being part of the latter group makes your statement self-contradictory. An insignificant (and even less knowledgable than most) part. |
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Eric Chomko wrote:
Given that the HST won't be getting a robit mission, should we continue with the technology and actually develop and test it on ISS?! (Proof of concept). Looks like such testing has already begun. From today's ISS report: "The crew first installed a Universal Work Platform at the forward end of the large conical section of Zvezda. They mounted a German commercial experiment called Rokviss (Robotics Component Verification on ISS) on the platform... The Rokviss consists of a small double- jointed manipulator arm, an illumination system and a power supply. ....Rokviss will test the ability of lightweight robotic joints to operate in the vacuum of space for future assembly work or satellite repair and servicing." |
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Rand Simberg ) wrote:
: On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 21:09:01 +0000 (UTC), in a place far, far away, : (Eric Chomko) made the phosphor on my : monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: : Thanks, that is what I was looking for. Rand didn't seem to understnd the : question or was just being obtuse. : No, the question was so misstated that I didn't understand how it : related to my post (because it didn't), and even when you restated it, : it still had little to do with my post, and it's one on which I have : no strong opinion or knowledge. But at one point you DID get it. That along with a lot else you edited out, as is your style. Eric |
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