Why are NASA selling the Shuttles?
Wouldn’t it make more sense to actively give them to several good museums so they can be preserved for history?
17 million, not many museums can afford those and besides they are pretty much just scrap once sold in space terms. Not like someone is going to actually use them.
Thanks for the replies.
Is it likely that the occupants ejected or could the seats have just been pulled out for scrap? The rails are up and the canopy is shattered. Or perhaps just made to look like an ejection for the training.
No. We do not have the right to take someones life regardless of what they have done (with the possible exception of mass genocide but that’s a different court).
The death penalty sounds to me like revenge rather than punishment.
I would like to see more realistic sentences. 300 years without parole.
As to 37’000 to house an inmate. That sounds like typical bureaucratic waste.
As a devout Atheist I have one problem with religion.
I still think we should have religion in a modern society.
Why?
Would you deny the right of a dying person, a Soldier on the battlefield. Child in hospital. Relative. The right to look for comfort in religion when they face death?
I don’t care what your belief death is quite a strong motivator.
The reason I believe we do not have the right to kill someone is because it is inhumane.
While their actions may be inhumane I do not see why killing the perpetrator makes the sentence just and not just revenge.
I also don’t understand why the family of the victim would want the perpetrator killed for any other reason than revenge.
How can it be just to kill those that have killed?
I’ll throw the question back at you. Why do you think the death penalty is anything other than revenge?
I had a fridge magnet of a SAR Seaking I picked up while on holiday in Weymouth.
The missus was making pastry one morning. Slammed the fridge door causing the Helo to fall
onto the work surface. Straight into some flour and straight into a whiteout condition.
Fortunately the magnet survived the ordeal.
Should be a long drawn out trial
“Why did you steal the food?”
“To feed myself and my family.”
“Case dismissed!”
They should put the money towards finding out why these people need to steal food to survive and fixing the problem.
Then fine the Supermarkets for wasting food.
There’s no excuse for food waste.
Freeze it, distribute to the poor, use for animal feed or burn it for energy.
Or just change the law that says you have to throw it away. Sell all out of date food destined for the bin for 10p an item.
There is no problem with continuing to use windows XP if it does the job for you.
However there will be no more updates or patches and so potentially XP could be compromised (hacked) and new devices will not support it.
If thinking of upgrading you can get Windows 7 for around £50 – 80 quid.
But make sure your devices support it (printers, external disks etc).
I’ve been running Win7 Professional on my two machines without problems.
As BenyBoy said stay clear of Vista and stick with XP if you have to. Vista is buggy and crashes often (even more than XP).
I am genuinely surprised because of his list of notable films over the past 20 years and his Oscar for Capote and three Oscar nominations. I would only say check him out and try to see his work.
He was in a lot of films but for me, a kid growing up in the 80’s, this is how I will remember him.
“there are old pilots and there are bold pilots but there are no, old, bold pilots!” – V.I.N.CENT.
The robot in the film was called Maximilian. A coincidence or deliberate?

We should leave smokers alone to enjoy their habit.
They pay billions in revenue, die young without claiming pension.
That’s got to be a win-win for the rest of us.
“doing drugs, peeing on walls, racing sports cars, visiting Brazilian brothels, abusing the police, demanding privacy whilst doing everything in front of cameras”
Sounds like a good night out to me. I wonder how many old farts here would have done the same given half the chance – and half the money?
For me this isn’t about the killing of an animal per-sea, animals are sometimes killed for valid reasons and for food. I don’t have a problem with either.
What I don’t understand is why the Zoo couldn’t just sterilise the animal. Problem solved.
Killing a perfectly healthy animal goes against what I believe a Zoo is about.
There’s no difference. The end result is the same. Food. If the species is a carnivore or an omnivore, some have to die for others to live. It’s called Nature.
If we are letting nature take it’s course then we should abolish Zoo’s, abolish all conservation efforts to save animals and allow them to die out.
Man is the tip of the natural selection tree. For us to kill or cause the extinction of animals is inevitable.
I’m not sure it will make the earth a better place?