Comments on: August 16, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast

By: Localfluff

Localfluff — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 19:56:11 +0000

So this is a very unfair and evil way to sum it up. But it shows how the “space debate” goes around in the presidential elections. Even when a most respected and intelligent candidate tries to bring up the very reasonable idea of building a crewed base on the Moon. In MSM he’s immediately a lunatic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLjBz5LdRK8

No, no, there’s nothing in the blackness above your head at night. Don’t worry about those dots, they don’t exist. Nothing to see here.

By: Localfluff

Localfluff — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 19:31:40 +0000

Orion314
Unless the politician is a space nerd! Newt Gingrich is as close we can get to that, I guess. He’s seriously educated and thoughtful. But he unbelievably said that he wants space solar power beamed down to Earth to replace coal power plants.

So that pretty much settles it. NASA maybe does better as a lap-dog bitch than being kicked out of the House. A dog has to try to be happy with whatever it gets. And it’s still fed for survival. NASA is still alive. It still has got a chance. Gotta fight to the end.

By: Orion314

Orion314 — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 17:30:25 +0000

As long as NASA remains a politicians lap-dog bitch, it will never improve.

By: Localfluff

Localfluff — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 14:39:22 +0000

Red Dragon 2018 would land more mass on Mars than the sum of all other landers on Mars have!

And if successful, it would prove that astronauts could be landed on Mars. Today. In a Dragon capsule ejected from a larger Earth-Mars transit vehicle. Although NASA claims that it is impossible to land humans on Mars without tens of tons and some huge, yet non-existent, inflatable heat shield. Reality will tell us who understand physics the best. Reality never cheats.