Columbia Disaster Thread

You all know. If you don't get out from under your damn rock.

Should the space program continue? How long should shuttles be grounded for? Any theories to causes, comments, whines, complaints, laughs etc. are welcome.

I simply have this to say:
It's a hell of a way to go, especially when you're thinking about the past 16 days looking down over Earth.

There is failure and success in human life. This a failure. we should push even harder to go to space then ever before. Because we need to expand humanities destruction across the universe.

Im selfish, I dont care about people doing risky things and then wanting my sympathy when it goes wrong. If i got caught up on it Id be majorly depressed.

/me skips out thread whistling

Szukala wrote: ...Because we need to expand humanities destruction across the universe.

Hmm?

Azz0r - I agree. Occasionally you can get too cocky (The US seems to have done a lot of this lately) so the world's sympathy just isn't there.

I believe that this is indeed a tragedy, but in no way should it halt the space program. This may sound cliche', but you can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs...especially interspacial omelets.

Space shuttle crashed? Big deal. So a few dedicated people got gibbed. There are much worse fatalities going on elsewhere.

Exactly, but you Americans have to play up to a public disaster instead of focusing on gang wars with innocent people being slaughtered and constant police chases.

Not to sound mean or spiteful or anything, but i think its kinda ironic that we had the flag at half-mast for like a week over seven people who had willingly chosen to do something quite risky when we probably bombed that many innocent people in Iraq that very same day.

Sounds fair. It's all a bit of the US being pathetic really.

It's sad how we say that there are all of these back-ass-ward countries, when no one but a few people (such as my mom) who said that actually, America, 'the home of the brave and free' is actually as backward or worse than other countries. While we're shooting hundreds of people with .50 cal machine guns trying to 'keep the peace' in Iraq, we were mourning seven people, who knew that the mission was quite risky, and volunteered for it, while innocent people are butchered everyday.

Why the hell did you bump this?

arguments i suppose

And if ain't that, it would be an attempt at another Resurrection type thread right?

arguments i suppose

wow, his idea worked just with a different person eh ?

just lock the damn thing.

the point is moot now anyways, with private companies steps from space.

Yeah...that private spacecraft has that prize already, don't they? It's only a matter of time before we'll be flying out into space with Delta, and AirTran, and cheap,

CheapAlert wrote: Why the hell did you bump this?

Because of what jabberwock said, and a bit of what jjackson said as well. If your mind worked like mine did, and maybe if you even read everything, most importantly, jabberwock and jjackson's posts, then you might get why i brought up such an old thread. And, if you don't like me bringing up an old thread, I never saw anything that couldn't let me bring up old threads...

- Edited By sticky On Sat 10th, Jul 2004 @ 9:55:01pm

The private network will go further than the big companys prolly

But companys like nasa arent aimed at putting public in space, their aimed at exploring the new, and reaching new records , like space stations etc..

But it would be nice to get a ticket into space
I hope we do succede further and the cost comes down, and more safe ships come up

Maybe if atmospheric travel is the thing of tomorrow, maybe air tickets will stop being so expensive. However, I do like how AirTran came to Wichita. We had outrageous prices. 1000$ (yes, one-thousand) dollar tickets for business area, (i.e. coach).

Soon I think Nasa will just buy or lease spacecraft from companies like Spaceshipone, in the meantime though, Nasa needs to keep flying so the can maintain satilites in orbit. Also I see Nasa or the EU/Russias space programs taking on the role of something like "International Rescue" or the fire department.

Its still a long time before the private spaceships reach the size of the space shuttle. The X prize calls for 3 people to be carried into space, the space shuttle carries at least 7 as well as satilites and experiments.

And like chis said, private companies won't just go into space to explore for the heck of it. They'll be tour buses or they'll look for things that would make them money. Star Trek Style Exploration would be left to goverments.

We dont hear about NASA down here, we only hear about their crashing sattelies an so on, why is that we hear about the useless crap

I dont think one of there satalites have crashed in years

we still hear about it down here tho, thats all the news we get about nasa, an that shuttle that got photos of a planet recently thats about all tho

here is a good read about nasa Space.com

Nasa has a probe near saturn right now, that should be in the news soon.

It was already in the news here.

it took 7 bloody years to get there

btu it has revealed some interesting stuff.