NASA Now reliant on Russia.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Elok
Pshht, manned spaceflight's not much better as investments go. Its only real advantage over Iraq is the much lower body count.

I wouldn't be surprised if a greater proportion of astronauts died than soldiers in Iraq.

[Darius871]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
I wouldn't be surprised if a greater proportion of astronauts died than soldiers in Iraq.

And you'd be correct; it's 5% vs. 0.2%. Even if we were to include the proportion of civilians killed in the violence, it'd come to 5% vs. 0.6% or 5% vs. 3.8% depending on which body count you believe.

NASA murderers

Space accidents, either during operations or training for spaceflights, have killed 22 astronauts (five percent of all people who have been in space, two percent of individual spaceflights), and a much larger number of ground crew.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_a..._and_incidents

About 1.5 million troops have served in Iraq
http://www.usatoday.com/news/militar...injuries_N.htm

U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: 3974
http://icasualties.org/oif/

Iraqi Health Ministry survey - 151,000 violent deaths
Opinion Research Business survey - 1,033,000 violent deaths.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualt...r#Iraqi_deaths

A July 2006 estimate of the total Iraqi population is 26,783,383.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq

[PLATO]

Wow...that's a relief. Thinking that Iraq might have been as dangerous as strapping yourself to several tons of highly flamable material and then setting it off was keeping me up nights.

[Heraclitus]

Unlike Iraq every singel death in the space program has resulted in some improvments of NASA's way of doing things.



Imagine if the same could be said of Iraq.

[Winston]

Well, I don't believe that concern for the NASA things really played any vital role in the decision to enter Iraq.

[Serb]

Originally posted by Combat Ingrid


QFGDMFT

WTF?

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Lancer
Ahh for the glory days of Apollo.

ACK!

[Riesstiu IV]

Originally posted by Serb

WTF?

QFGDMFT = quoted for the god damn mother f*cking truth.

[Lancer]

@ Tuberski

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Serb



WTF?

Learn English.

[Serb]

Originally posted by Darius871
Inferior Russian "engineering"

If our engineering is "inferior", then yours is non-existent.

[Serb]

Originally posted by Tuberski




ACK!

Ivan> Apollo

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Serb



Ivan> Apollo

ACK!