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http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/06/15/space.shuttle.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
Doesn't look like they're going to have to abandon it or anything, but man, why can't we get space exploration right for a change?
HOUSTON, Texas (AP) -- Cosmonauts aboard the international space station struggled for a second day Friday to try to reboot failed computers that control the orbiting outpost's orientation.
The Russians worked on the system through the night but only succeeded in getting one of three power channels to the station's computers operating before flight controllers told them to get some sleep, NASA flight director Holly Ridings said.
Valery Lyndin, spokesman for Russia's Mission Control outside Moscow, said Friday that support staff on the ground had so far been unable to pinpoint the source of the computer failure.
"The lives of the crew are not in danger," Lyndin stressed.
Doesn't look like they're going to have to abandon it or anything, but man, why can't we get space exploration right for a change?
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Space exploration right now seems to be sort of pointless.
How is it any more pointless today than it was 30 years ago? (answer: it's not)
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Me and Stephen Hawking agree with you.
For sure. Space exploration is one of the most awesome things to come out of the last century. I've always had a really romanticized perception of it, but I feel like it comes with the territory. I just wish we'd go further into space.
I said a viable colony. Have you read any Heinlein? The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress type colony is what I am thinking.
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Yeah, fuck that Magellan guy. Who needs to chart the oceans when I have everything I need right here in Portugal?
I would live on Mars. Like in Total Recall.
It's not like our government would spend the money currently being used on the space program for anything more worthwhile.
They're idiots, you see.
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how fucking pathetic
I probably am doing this just to piss you off, huh.
This is truth
hella perceptive
I'm pretty sure my ideas of colonisation/space travel are romanticised as well but if we actually get moving on it and put in some real work and thought, maybe they are not so unrealistic. I'm not expecting to take a pleasure cruise to Venus in my lifetime but I would like to see at least another trip to the moon and something serious done towards Mars.
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It has to, or Moon local clients would have fucking horrible lag.
Fuck yeah.
There's a website that has all the contents of the voyager space craft cataloged, and it gives me a really great feeling to go through and listen to the clips, and read the transcripts, and just see how much optimism humanity had when they launched it.
http://re-lab.net/welcome/index.html
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"If you're going to play tiddly winks, play it with man hole covers."
- John McCallum
I will require time to grok this to fullness.
Other than seeing what's out there, which is mainly done by the Hubble, what have we gained from the Space program?
Thats a hell of a word.
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so he can process this
to a point of understandingness
At some point, if we don't nuke ourselves, we're going to need it.
Tang.
Satellites (tv, radio, cellular, image, weather etc), integrated circuitry, solar power, smoke detectors, and shock absorbing helmets are all things developed for the space program that we use in our every day lives.
The space program itself isn't about giving you tangible goods. They're not going into space to drill for oil, they're going to discover what else is out there.
shit, you can get 'tang here on earth. some of it's bad 'tang.