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[MaverickSawyer]

Well, if you do it to NASA requirements, sure, it'll take that long. If we just knuckle down and start cutting metal, instead of getting bogged down in red tape, we could get it done faster.

Think of how Apollo was run. A similar mission goal today (Constellation) never made it very far before being cancelled because it took too long. 15 years? Pffft. It'll get cancelled in 8. Do it quickly, so there's too much momentum for the next administration to kill it.

 

[Urwumpe]

Well, if you do it to NASA requirements, sure, it'll take that long. If we just knuckle down and start cutting metal, instead of getting bogged down in red tape, we could get it done faster.

Don't make me quote Feynmann on that please.

Think of how Apollo was run. A similar mission goal today (Constellation) never made it very far before being cancelled because it took too long. 15 years? Pffft. It'll get cancelled in 8. Do it quickly, so there's too much momentum for the next administration to kill it.

Apollo costs are $170 billion in modern US dollars. The related projects had been running for 14 years from 1959 to 1973.

The simple truth is: No administration kills a well-running program. But once it does not run well, it is vulnerable.

 

[PeterRoss]

:blink:
We could send a manned mission to Mars in four to five years on that budget!

If it were for American Military Budget we could send a manned mission to Mars in the next launch window.

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Maybe if we'll fake a report about some petrol... sorry, the lack of democracy on Mars...:hmm:

 

[Urwumpe]

Maybe if we'll fake a report about some petrol... sorry, the lack of democracy on Mars...:hmm:

Don't let them know that Titan has megatons of hydrocarbons.

 

[PeterRoss]

Don't let them know that Titan has megatons of hydrocarbons.

That's it! :lol:
Maybe they will use Mars as their base of operations...

 

[Athena]

I recently started playing DF after a year...oh, the nostalgia...

And i also channeled the bloody reason why i'm scared of heights while putting up flags at the "high" walkrails outside the school buildings which where around 27 meters at their highest point. :blush:

 

[Urwumpe]

Just got the news that only 0.9% of my work hours this year is not already allocated for customers... Pretty high load again, considering that November is coming near.

 

[PeterRoss]

Just got the news that only 0.9% of my work hours this year is not already allocated for customers... Pretty high load again, considering that November is coming near.

You mean you can't take a couple of days off if you need it?:idk:

 

[Artlav]

Don't make me quote Feynmann on that please.

Hm? I wasn't aware of a related Feynmann quote.
Was it something he said regarding Challenger?

 

[Urwumpe]

You mean you can't take a couple of days off if you need it?:idk:

Not a single day more than already planned at the beginning of the year = 19th December is the final day of work this year.

I can still become ill - but it would mean that contracts planned to be finished this year would slip into next year and I make a few enemies at the controlling department.

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Hm? I wasn't aware of a related Feynmann quote.
Was it something he said regarding Challenger?

Exactly:

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."

 

[n122vu]

A few shots from the climb out of Denver International yesterday on the way to Las Vegas for SAP TechEd 2013.

Sitting on the taxiway in Vegas, awaiting clearance to the gate, I look left and....Konami!

It's Vegas Baby!

First time flying on a '37. This was a 737-700 (both legs were, actually. Different planes but same model). A graceful bird, even landing fully loaded in the thinner air of Denver. One of the smoothest landings I've ever experienced.

 

[Urwumpe]

Why I really love the what-if section of xkcd: It delivers solid science references for Orbinauts and science fiction writers.

http://www.academia.edu/3453325/Ultra_Long_Orbital_Tethers_Behave_Highly_Non-Keplerian_and_Unstable

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

Saw a diagram related to vector mappings, and... I couldnt help myself :lol:

 

[Linguofreak]

:blink:
We could send a manned mission to Mars in four to five years on that budget!

The bad news is that this is your lander:

 

[mojoey]

Please. If I've learned anything from Top Gear it's that his lander is gonna be this:

and on that bombshell

 

[Urwumpe]

The bad news is that this is your lander:

Come on... that one is no longer in production... that lander might be more likely:

 

[PeterRoss]

Sending concept cars to Mars may become a popular advertising tool :idea:

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

Cheekiest
Spacecraft
Promo
Video
Ever?


(and it's fairly close to launch! Should happen next February if all goes well....)

 

[MattBaker]

Cheekiest
Spacecraft
Promo
Video
Ever?

I should study marketing at the local university just to be able to write a thesis about "Comparison of promotional videos in the space sectors around the World".

 

[N_Molson]

I can still become ill - but it would mean that contracts planned to be finished this year would slip into next year and I make a few enemies at the controlling department.

Welcome in the world of liberalistic capitalism