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NASA scuttling more space missions so it can spend more on global warming
On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 10:27:39 AM UTC-4, Chris L Peterson wrote:
On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 03:37:50 -0700 (PDT), wsnell01 wrote: Perhaps Congress needs to adjust its priorities, with less wasted on pork (vote buying) and more spent on space (not Earth) exploration. I'd agree with that. You aren't agreeing. We could scale back military spending by more than 50% over the next decade or two. The military is not the pork here. The military protects the entire country, whereas pork barrel expenditures are favors to local constituencies, expenditures not spelled out in the Constitution, BTW. That would free up enough money for countless useful projects- projects that would actually generate revenue. Space exploration, alternative energy, medical research. Money saved on any reduced military spending is to remain in the pockets of the taxpayers. As we now know with a high degree of certainty that the world is in deep trouble due to climate change, and part of NASA's primary charter is studying the Earth and its climate, it makes good sense they should shift what resources they have to that. Understanding the Earth in more detail has become the most important thing NASA can do. Wrong. Its most important duty has always been and still is, to develop space hardware, especially launch vehicles. Studying the Earth and its climate has been a primary component of its charter since day one. That doesn't exclude the other stuff. But you suggested in your earlier post: "studying the Earth and its climate, it makes good sense they should shift what resources they have to that" That effectively excludes the "other stuff" which then leaves the US without a space program. But that's what you socialists have wanted all along. |
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NASA scuttling more space missions so it can spend more on global warming
On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 08:26:53 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
Socialism and communism are very different. Both are based on the elimination of private property and the abuse of natural rights. The distinction is that fascism (the WW2 axis for example) allows for existence of "capitalism" if/when convenient for those in power; such a government essentially runs and owns the factories and capital. Socialism is not about the elimination of private property, but about government control of the means of production. Of course, since I don't believe in the existence of natural rights, that argument is meaningless to me. And there are vanishingly few socialists to be found anywhere in the developed world. Evidence that refutes your (as usual, hilarious) view: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/ni...in-capitalism/ Written by an ignorant idiot. Americans increasingly favor social systems as we see in Europe, due to their great success. That is not socialism, and is not in the slightest at odds with capitalism. There is a big difference between social systems and economic systems. You are confusing the two. |
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NASA scuttling more space missions so it can spend more on global warming
On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 09:26:23 -0700 (PDT), RichA
wrote: Do you know how many agencies have gotten in on this gravy train, how many scientists, bureaucrats and politicians have their noses in the trough, thinking they've hit the jackpot? Global warming is being defended by people who want "STATE-sponsored jobs for life." Since global warming is the single greatest threat we face, it is good that there are a number of different agencies involved. |
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A website log of daily Sun/Sirius sightings (positions)? was NASA scuttling more space missions so it can spend more on global warming
Don Kuenz wrote:
oriel36 wrote: So let's see where NASA is at in understanding the Earth - "The Earth spins on its axis about 366 and 1/4 times each year, but there are only 365 and 1/4 days per year. This is because we define a day not based on the Earth's period of rotation, but based on the average time from noon one day to noon the next. Gradually over the course of a year the Sun appears to go 'backwards' (West to East) around the Earth compared to the far away stars (this is because we are really going around the Sun). Subtracting this 1 time backwards from the 366 and 1/4 times forward, we get the typical 365 and 1/4 days per year." NASA http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/as...rs/970714.html I don't know what people have against the actual architecture where the apparent motion of Sirius along the ecliptic and behind the glare of the Sun fixes the Earth's orbital position in space with its first appearance. The drift backwards into the Sun's glare by a 6 hour amount of orbital motion with each 365 day cycle accumulates to an entire rotation after 4 circuits hence the appearance skips a day. Does anyone know of a publicly accessible website that provides a daily log of Sun and/or Sirius sightings (positions)? TIA. -- Don Kuenz download Sellarium. Its free http://www.stellarium.org/en_GB/ |
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A website log of daily Sun/Sirius sightings (positions)? was NASA scuttling more space missions so it can spend more on global warming
"Don Kuenz" wrote in message ... oriel36 wrote: So let's see where NASA is at in understanding the Earth - "The Earth spins on its axis about 366 and 1/4 times each year, but there are only 365 and 1/4 days per year. This is because we define a day not based on the Earth's period of rotation, but based on the average time from noon one day to noon the next. Gradually over the course of a year the Sun appears to go 'backwards' (West to East) around the Earth compared to the far away stars (this is because we are really going around the Sun). Subtracting this 1 time backwards from the 366 and 1/4 times forward, we get the typical 365 and 1/4 days per year." NASA http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/as...rs/970714.html I don't know what people have against the actual architecture where the apparent motion of Sirius along the ecliptic and behind the glare of the Sun fixes the Earth's orbital position in space with its first appearance. The drift backwards into the Sun's glare by a 6 hour amount of orbital motion with each 365 day cycle accumulates to an entire rotation after 4 circuits hence the appearance skips a day. Does anyone know of a publicly accessible website that provides a daily log of Sun and/or Sirius sightings (positions)? TIA. -- Don Kuenz ================================================= Dunno about a website, but a guy I know commutes daily between Tokelau Samoa and American Samoa on a Jet ski red eye and he says he skips days when he's working the graveyard shift just as Kelleher wants. Other days he sometimes lives through twice. http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/dateln.gif -- Lord Androcles, Zeroth Earl of Medway |
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A website log of daily Sun/Sirius sightings (positions)?
Mike Collins wrote:
Don Kuenz wrote: Does anyone know of a publicly accessible website that provides a daily log of Sun and/or Sirius sightings (positions)? TIA. download Sellarium. Its free http://www.stellarium.org/en_GB/ Thank you Mike. The BSD port of stellarium is one of the easier packages to install. It runs without a hitch and its database even came preloaded with data for my relatively small home town. It's night vision (red) feature ought to prove quite useful on a laptop in the field. Just as soon as it warms up a bit more I intend to take my Orion EQ2-mounted-Bausch & Lomb-Pentax contraption out to the field for a little amateur astronomy. Thank you again. -- Don Kuenz |
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A website log of daily Sun/Sirius sightings (positions)? was NASA scuttling more space missions so it can spend more on global warming
On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 5:23:34 PM UTC, Mike Collins wrote:
Don Kuenz wrote: oriel36 wrote: So let's see where NASA is at in understanding the Earth - "The Earth spins on its axis about 366 and 1/4 times each year, but there are only 365 and 1/4 days per year. This is because we define a day not based on the Earth's period of rotation, but based on the average time from noon one day to noon the next. Gradually over the course of a year the Sun appears to go 'backwards' (West to East) around the Earth compared to the far away stars (this is because we are really going around the Sun). Subtracting this 1 time backwards from the 366 and 1/4 times forward, we get the typical 365 and 1/4 days per year." NASA http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/as...rs/970714.html I don't know what people have against the actual architecture where the apparent motion of Sirius along the ecliptic and behind the glare of the Sun fixes the Earth's orbital position in space with its first appearance. The drift backwards into the Sun's glare by a 6 hour amount of orbital motion with each 365 day cycle accumulates to an entire rotation after 4 circuits hence the appearance skips a day. Does anyone know of a publicly accessible website that provides a daily log of Sun and/or Sirius sightings (positions)? TIA. -- Don Kuenz download Sellarium. Its free http://www.stellarium.org/en_GB/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x5pbI5E3P4 Just another homocentric timekeeping average program with no appreciation of the apparent motion of the constellations behind the central Sun as the Earth orbits along the ecliptic plane - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeQwYrfmvoQ Grown men mesmerized by the constellations moving in stellar circumpolar motion and unable to make the majestic distinctions the great astronomers once made. No need to rail against NASA who is overrun by celestial sphere addicts and have managed to get the taxpayers to pay for the upkeep of a cult that continues to indoctrinate students. That chain of indoctrination has now been broken. |
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A website log of daily Sun/Sirius sightings (positions)? was NASA scuttling more space missions so it can spend more on global warming
On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 3:04:12 PM UTC-7, oriel36 wrote:
No need to rail against NASA who is overrun by celestial sphere addicts and have managed to get the taxpayers to pay for the upkeep of a cult that continues to indoctrinate students. That chain of indoctrination has now been broken. Only in your dreams, Gerald, that link is far from broken... https://scontent-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/...04987982_n.png |
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