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I posted that in the cool vids thread. It's amazing. We should be throwing insane amounts of cash at those people all the time.
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77 2012-07-05 07:44:10 (edited by redxavier 2012-07-05 07:47:03)
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Ah! I thought I'd seen it here but couldn't for the life of me find it again. Sorry Lamer!
A lot of money is spent in the industry when looking at the figures in isolation, but nowhere near close to what should be and relative to what is spent elsewhere. Sometimes I wish taxpayers could be more selective as to where their money is spent.... or better yet, can voluntarily pay extra tax to certain endeavours.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan
79 2012-07-11 02:13:15 (edited by BigDamnArtist 2012-07-11 02:14:11)
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81 2012-07-20 12:33:31 (edited by Saniss 2012-07-20 12:47:35)
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Look how close it is to the Earth! Gah! Where are the space arks?!?!
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I dont know, the guy puts the blame on
quite a bit.
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So uh...Happy 43rd anniversary of the moon landing everyone!
(Let's just pretend I actually posted this yesterday, and not a day late)
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Cool, I'll definitely be checking that out.
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They did it, they made their target! I'm so pleased for them. Now they've set a new goal of $100k. Anyone who's not become a backer yet and would like to see the documentary get made (and get some rewards of course 
), please join the effort.
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Backed. Looking forward to what they have to say.
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"The Doctor is Submarining through our brains." --Teague
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We have progress - 40 years ago, teenage culture was dominated by camp caped crime-fighting crusaders like Batman, Spiderman and Superman, and today... oh bad example.
40 years ago we had the subsonic 747 to fly us from city to city, and now we have.... oh bad example.
40 years ago we were meddling in the middle east over fossilised plants from the Carboniferous. How primitive is that?
40 years ago women were campaigning for the right to have contraception and abortion without stigma
not long to go now...
97 2012-08-01 07:08:59 (edited by BigDamnArtist 2012-08-01 07:09:18)
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It'll be interesting if China really do take up the baton of exploring the solar system - in the 1960s/70s, The USA & Soviets were all over Venus & Mars & Moon, launching Viking, Pioneer & Voyager. There were big 'tentpole' missions every year, and not just Apollo. There were even balloon probes floating in the atmosphere of Venus!
I wonder how long it'll be until China actually goes beyond USA/Soviets e.g. landing on Europa or orbiting Neptune. It'll go faster if data is shared, but if China have to re-invent the wheel, we'll be retirement age before anything happens.
We've had 40 years of great innovation in computer miniaturisation and CCD sensors, etc - so the next generation of probes should give us HD 3D 1080p video from the surface of other worlds.
Less than a week till Curiosity - that baby better land, otherwise there's nothing for quite a while.
not long to go now...
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China's launch is a step in the right direction, though, and that's all we can ask for.
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Ya, fingers crossed china absolutely kicks our ass in the space-tech department, kicking off another space race.
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