dont forget the wind sheer
Tu Stultus Es
"There was a demon, that lived in the air.Karbin wrote:
Man!!!
You brats make me feel OLD!!!!
I was 26, waiting for the lift-off, and running late for work.
There were holds on and it got to the point that I had to leave.
I'd just got to my car when my Dad came running out with the news.
My response......." Don't screw around, NASA doesn't make mistakes like that".
They say that who ever challenged him would die.
Their controls would freeze up, their planes would buffet wildly
... and they would disintegrate"
along with a couple of Super Bowls (before they redid the play-offs) this tragedy always makes me think of how life has gone for me . . .burnzz wrote:
i was turning 21, and had had a couple of beverages when they turned on the TV.
One of his finest speeches. I miss that Reagan. RIP NASA 7.
& now RIP NASA. Thanks bamster.
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I stood in line for four hours. They better give me a Wal-Mart gift card, or something. - Rodney Booker, Job Fair attendee.
I was in kindergarten when that happened. They wheeled in a tv for us to watch it, shuttle goes boom, and the teacher burst into tears. We had no idea wtf was going on.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?pi … 3#p2996803
But the chickens were cool....
But the chickens were cool....
I stood in line for four hours. They better give me a Wal-Mart gift card, or something. - Rodney Booker, Job Fair attendee.
Haha, I can't believe I put that pic up here.DBBrinson1 wrote:
http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?pid=2996803#p2996803
But the chickens were cool....
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
That was before you knew that whatever you said can and will be used against you round these parts :p
I stood in line for four hours. They better give me a Wal-Mart gift card, or something. - Rodney Booker, Job Fair attendee.
That doesn't bother me People can say whatever they want about me online, it doesn't impact me at all. Call me a fascist all you want, I won't run away like Turquoise didDBBrinson1 wrote:
That was before you knew that whatever you said can and will be used against you round these parts :p
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
Turquoise left?JohnG@lt wrote:
That doesn't bother me People can say whatever they want about me online, it doesn't impact me at all. Call me a fascist all you want, I won't run away like Turquoise didDBBrinson1 wrote:
That was before you knew that whatever you said can and will be used against you round these parts :p
He got mad when I called him a fascist in the thread about Canadian censorship. 13/F/Taiwan yelled at him for being a fascist, a communist, a socialist, and an anarchist depending on the day of the week tooSenorToenails wrote:
Turquoise left?JohnG@lt wrote:
That doesn't bother me People can say whatever they want about me online, it doesn't impact me at all. Call me a fascist all you want, I won't run away like Turquoise didDBBrinson1 wrote:
That was before you knew that whatever you said can and will be used against you round these parts :p
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
turq ran away last time when gs pissed him off
I saw that, lol...but he was back in that taxes thread. Then he disappeared (4 days now?), but hey, I disappear for years at a time from here...lolJohnG@lt wrote:
He got mad when I called him a fascist in the thread about Canadian censorship. 13/F/Taiwan yelled at him for being a fascist, a communist, a socialist, and an anarchist depending on the day of the week tooSenorToenails wrote:
Turquoise left?JohnG@lt wrote:
That doesn't bother me People can say whatever they want about me online, it doesn't impact me at all. Call me a fascist all you want, I won't run away like Turquoise did
Three tragic anniversaries within a week. Apollo 1.. Challenger.. Columbia.
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I de/refer to Reagan's speech above.Kmar wrote:
Three tragic anniversaries within a week. Apollo 1.. Challenger.. Columbia.
I stood in line for four hours. They better give me a Wal-Mart gift card, or something. - Rodney Booker, Job Fair attendee.
Well there is always the ESA, China, and the Russians. They have all made their ambitions quite clear, and they are backing them.
By the end of this year Americans wont even have a way to send astronauts into space. Congress is now telling NASA how they should develop their heavy lift rockets.. they have advised using older technology, which is in fact less cost efficient.
By the end of this year Americans wont even have a way to send astronauts into space. Congress is now telling NASA how they should develop their heavy lift rockets.. they have advised using older technology, which is in fact less cost efficient.
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"What do you care what other people think?" Has some really good stuff on this, i'd recommend buying it if anyone's interested in the challenger disaster.
I'd type my pc specs out all fancy again but teh mods would remove it. Again.
I've seen just about enough.. from witnessing it live to countless documentaries.
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i've seen men walk on the moon, and now the day the USA won't be in space.
i don't think you can describe the pride and sense of accomplishment the Apollo missions brought this country, and to think we don't have any goals like that currently to drive us.
i don't think you can describe the pride and sense of accomplishment the Apollo missions brought this country, and to think we don't have any goals like that currently to drive us.
well you had the constellation program but that got cancelled....
inane little opines
As much as I'm a tightwad when it comes to government spending, I don't really understand the destruction of NASA. Their budget is about the same size as a combat brigade or an aircraft carrier. I think we have enough of those already.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
That was well over 4 years before I was born. For obvious reasons I do not remember anything about that horrible incident.
the Cuban missile crisis was four years before i was born. that doesn't keep me from trying to understand the implications of an event. in this case, it was the beginning of the end of the shuttle program,RDMC wrote:
That was well over 4 years before I was born. For obvious reasons I do not remember anything about that horrible incident.
Perception is reality .. unfortunately..JohnG@lt wrote:
As much as I'm a tightwad when it comes to government spending, I don't really understand the destruction of NASA. Their budget is about the same size as a combat brigade or an aircraft carrier. I think we have enough of those already.
Less than one percent of the budget. Much of that is recouped.Public perception of the NASA budget is very different from reality and has been the subject of controversy since the agency's creation. A 1997 poll reported that Americans had an average estimate of 20% for NASA's share of the federal budget, very different from the actual 0.5% to under 1% that has been maintained throughout the late 90's and first decade of the 2000s.
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does nasa pay the contractors out of their budget?