Where debating everything under the sun is only the beginning

The space policy of the Barack Obama administration was announced by U.S. President Barack Obama on April 15, 2010, at a major space policy speech at Kennedy Space Center.[1] He committed to increasing NASA funding by $6 billion over five years and completing the design of a new heavy-lift launch vehicle by 2015 and to begin construction thereafter. He also predicted a U.S.-crewed orbital Mars mission by the mid-2030s, preceded by an asteroid mission by 2025. In response to concerns over job losses, Obama promised a $40 million effort to help Space Coast workers affected by the cancellation of the Space Shuttle program and Constellation program.

The Obama administration's space policy was made subsequent to the final report of the Review of United States Human Space Flight Plans Committee, which it had instituted to review the human spaceflight plans of the United States in the post-Space Shuttle era. The NASA Authorization Act of 2010, passed on October 11, 2010, enacted many of the Obama administration's space policy goals..........[glow=black,2,300]continued[/glow]

    "Under the Obama plan, NASA will spend $100 billion on human spaceflight over the next 10 years in order to accomplish nothing"
  
"Obama called for sending a crew to a near Earth asteroid by 2025. ... Had Obama not canceled the Ares 5, we could have used it to perform an asteroid mission by 2016. But the President, while calling for such a flight, actually is terminating the programs that would make it possible."
 
  "With current in-space propulsion technology, we can do a round-trip mission to a near-Earth asteroid or a one-way transit to Mars in six months ... Holdren claims that he wants to develop a new electrically powered space thruster to speed up such trips. But without gigantic space nuclear power reactors to provide them with juice, such thrusters are useless, and the administration has no intention of developing such reactors."
  
"Without the skill and experience that actual spacecraft operation provides, the USA is far too likely to be on a long downhill slide to mediocrity."

"When President Obama recently released his budget for NASA, he proposed a slight increase in total funding...the accompanying decision to cancel the Constellation program, its Ares 1 and Ares V rockets, and the Orion spacecraft, is devastating."
  
"It appears that we will have wasted our current ten plus billion dollar investment in Constellation and, equally importantly, we will have lost the many years required to recreate the equivalent of what we will have discarded."
  
"For The United States, the leading space faring nation for nearly half a century, to be without carriage to low Earth orbit and with no human exploration capability to go beyond Earth orbit for an indeterminate time into the future, destines our nation to become one of second or even third rate stature. While the President's plan envisages humans traveling away from Earth and perhaps toward Mars at some time in the future, the lack of developed rockets and spacecraft will assure that ability will not be available for many years."

These people could go stark raving wacka-wacka before the next supply mission.

I'm not sure how I feel about this Stupid Project, so I'll let others weigh in on the project.

It goes under the rubric #freethenipple, an idea that is supposed to free women in the US to go bare chested, a right that men have in many places.

See this...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/femail/video-1098267/FreeTheNipple-movement-hits-NYC-force.html


...and then decide.

People going out there and apart from "experiencing the planet" they will in time get bored with the idea as minds set into realising that there will be much boredom lack of things to do daily. The mental effect will be a drain while you wait for the air and food to run out. Having a break will not work as you are stuck in the environment with no escape.

If this runs like it usually does, the women you actually WANT to see running around half naked never will. You'll see the Rosanne Barr look-alike women running around like that.. making you actually pray to go blind so you won't have to see that.

Quote from: mjmsprt40 on 2015-03-02, 20:54:15

If this runs like it usually does, the women you actually WANT to see running around half naked never will. You'll see the Rosanne Barr look-alike women running around like that.. making you actually pray to go blind so you won't have to see that.

Works the other way around too. How many of the men that run around bare chested do any women actually want to see?
( and why does that even matter? )

On the other "important" topic: I'm in favor of nipples

given that most of us mammals have them…

If this runs like it usually does, the women you actually WANT to see running around half naked never will. You'll see the Rosanne Barr look-alike women running around like that.. making you actually pray to go blind so you won't have to see that.

Because some women are gorgeous, simple as that.

This thread could also encompass stupid ideas.

Leaving aside the daftness of Smiley as his lot were involved in space and a distraction it is utter folly, pointless and of no advantage. The ridiculous sums would be better spent at home helping people than this adult daftness influenced by sci-fi comic youthdom.