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Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
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Honestly? I think ESA basically has all the downsides of NASA -- a politically-driven jobs program for engineers that does its best to stifle innovation -- except that it wastes less because it spends less due to unambitious goals.
ESA does have one thing going for it, though. Europe doesn't have a ton of engineers who worked on the space boondoggles of yesteryear and who are just biding their time in their current jobs until their pensions kick in.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891 -
I don't understand why there isn't an international space agency who are responsible for launching all countries' satellites and maintaining the international space station. That way North Korea wouldn't need to launch rockets.
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I can't figure out how they could possibly be less effective than NASA, but they are. Accomplishment
"The DPRK is still in a state of war with the U.S. It's called a black out." - Che explaining why orbital nightime pictures of NK show few lights. Seriously.Comment
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I sure hope so.Originally posted by duke o' york View Post
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I lump them in with the same group as Winnie the Pooh.Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
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Generally agree with DanS, ESA doesn't piss away as much money on manned space flight trying to live up to inflated nationalistic goals *Cough USA, Russia, China Cough* and is instead happy to do real research in unmanned probes.Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators, the creator seeks - those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest. - Thus spoke Zarathustra, Fredrick NietzscheComment
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Kill them all. Take them and toss in Darkcloud on top of the fire.Comment
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Cool space pics and anims
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Originally posted by Patroklos View PostI can't figure out how they could possibly be less effective than NASA, but they are. Accomplishment
Why do you think that?Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez DávilaComment
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Is this not the agency trying to reinvent GPS for, well, no reason whatsoever?"The DPRK is still in a state of war with the U.S. It's called a black out." - Che explaining why orbital nightime pictures of NK show few lights. Seriously.Comment
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