Darn Jews…it’s just silly to think anyone’s ever been out to murder them all off just because they’re Jews…Oh wait.

Based on that thinking…China can’t afford any sort of military either…or the Olympics…or? Pick your “or”. You also hopelessly missed the sarcastic point of the faked moon landing.

Also, you need to take a look at the economic and social condition of the U.S. in the 1950’s. It was anything but nirvana and whatever you think the conditions are currently in the U.S. or where it stands in relation to Western Europe or Asia, I can assure you that the situation is far, far better now in every category than it was then.
Money spent on scientific exploration can always arguably be diverted to some other grater social need. No one will ever argue that saving a child from a typhoid epidemic should be secondary to sending a man to the moon. The fact is though that technological pursuits, such as space programs, inevitably raise the entire society and ultimately help solve those social issues.

You’re joking right? Surface finish on that thing looked like it was slammed together by a bunch of HVAC installers.

Silly man…Do you know what HVAC installers charge!!

And what if KAL 007 had been used for intelligence-gathering?

Even if KAL 007 was loaded with radar sniffing spook gear it was also loaded with 269 civillians. Proving that the West was willing to put innocent civilians at risk would be worth a lot more than whatever a strayed 747 could pick up.

And I believe in the end the Soviets admitted that it was just a gigantic screwup…But I’m sure that no conspiracy theorist will let the facts get in the way. After all..the Americans were able to fake moon landings, blow up the World Trade Center and shoot Kennedy…right in front of the entire world. A civilian 747 on a spy mission was childs play.

We need to be more imaginative. I’ve had several car projects that have resulted in some very unusual marriages…I built a 1980 Austin Mini-Cooper that instead of using the wheezing 60hp mill uses a Honda 16B VTEC engine and something over 200 hp. (I challenge you and your Porsche to anything you like. But be careful. Even if you win you’ll look silly.) Is it too much to ask for a bit more cross pollination of ideas?

Can an American carrier fit though the Panama Canal?

How reliable were those counter-rotating prop engines? If you did add an afterburner to them…I wonder how much thrust you could get? Maybe that would help with take off?

if its the replicators, dont worry, we just need to upload vista onto them :dev2:

Silly…you can’t actually upload Vista. Even advanced extra-terestrials don’t have that kind of bandwidth. Not to mention that if you tried to upload Vista from a Vista machine you’d have a time/space paradox resulting in the extinction of all life in the universe…it’d be like “crossing the streams”!!!!