Originally posted by Vortex
oh boy….talk about ignorance…:rolleyes: All in one shot heh? :rolleyes:

If I’m reading your comment
correctly, ‘texy. Then, I agree with
you wholeheartedly, Man….

I mean, why all the commotion when it’s over
nothing more but just a single shot??? I mean, it’s not as if the Chinese
are the only ones that can mannage that you know…

The Americans have done it! The Russians
have proven themselves!! And, all Asians, i.e., Koreans and such,
will undoubtedly of course soon follow…

Just can’t understand the
world and the commotions surounding
these these days I tell ya!!!

Bookies offer heavy odds against Mars landing

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Bookies offer heavy odds against Mars landing

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/01/15/offbeat.mars.reut/index.html

“British bookmakers William Hill said Thursday they are
offering 50 to 1 odds against a man walking on Mars by December 31, 2030.
Bush announced plans on Wednesday to send humans back to
the moon as early as 2015 and eventually to Mars.”

Well… here’s where I’ll put my 2 bits…

I’ll take that 50-1 odd. But, I’ll wager
that it’ll be an international effort and all nations of the world,
large and small, will be a player in it…

It’s not going to be a purely “GWB/American legacy”!!!!

Originally posted by Vortex
I think one have to know about history before making those kind of judgements or insenuations. Bush’s father also made a pledge to go to Mars and no doubt almost every president have made space exploration one of the major issues…This was more urgent now because of the Columbia accident, and even more so due to the damning report on the accident. For a long time NASA was suspected of being too bureaucratic and inefficient, but sometimes a president have to wait until something happens or else the political pressure against changes will be too great (meaning any president given this chance, albeit as a result of a tragedy, and didn’t do anything is beyond tragedy). If the shuttle didn’t suffer the recent blow, then NASA will be as it usually is, hyper defensive on everything it does. Notice that the USAF’s space program is much much more successful when it come to launching things into space….why? Because of the services, the USAF is the youngest and easiest to be influenced by “civilians”…relatively of course. But NASA? People have no idea about dealing with certain scientists…. 🙁
Beyond all this, any of you ever consider that it was within a certain group of people (ie, within NASA itself) that ask the President to do this, not the other way around?….but no, the usual focus in the wrong area/person due to prejudices… :rolleyes:

Never would I have thought that I would jump in and
agree with the comments of the above, but, there’s always a first time
for everything, and I guess this is one of those times!!!

“If it weren’t for JFK’s foresights and if it weren’t for
his bold move, mankind would most probably still be running around in
hog farms trying to figure out how make ends meet!!!

Presidents do make the world go round and round!!!

Originally posted by Arthur
No matter how much i like space exploration, i don’t think the US can afford such a project on it’s own. The dollar is collapsing under the US’ trade and budget deficit as it is.

Unless the project will be paid the GWB-way: lowering taxes, and increase banknote production!
😀

Black Texas gold :)… Plenty of it where GW comes from!!!