What does Sup Forums think about NASA?

What does Sup Forums think about NASA?

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The red pointy thing is a serpents tongue.

NASA=fake space news.

Never A Straight Answer

Fuck off space niggers. I don't want to pay for elitist faggots to explore the cosmos. It pisses me off that they can go to Mars and I can't. Talk about building a huge space station that people can go live on and I'll give you 10% of everything I make.

Good at acting at live space documentaries

Besides, Space Station America makes perfect sense. Mutually assured destruction is a nice deterrent, but an even better one is having those Chinese misos knowing that we can destroy the whole planet and Americans are going to be laughing their asses off at them.

The need to help weaponize space.

Why'd they fake the Challenger disaster?

NASA is doing important work to develop asteroid detection and defence capacity, as well as supporting efforts to sustainably colonize space and thus ensure the long-run survival of the human race.

i liked 90s movies where they took place

Really?

It's the best way to steal money from taxpayers that anyone has thought of in 50 years.

If the moon landing was real why hasn't one (1) private company from anywhere in the world gone to the moon?

They should go back to the worm logo.

No, that would our defense and intelligence "Black Budget"

NASA is a scam.

Is it possible to build a space elevator today?

Yes:

youtube.com/watch?v=0qezLhypA0Y

The key idea is the Orbital Ring version of the space elevator, not the geosynchronous tether concept you are familiar with.

See, for example, Paul Birch's writings:

orionsarm.com/fm_store/OrbitalRings-I.pdf

The orbital ring only requires tethers about 300 kilometers long which is technically feasible with common material like steel, but ridiculously straightforward with better and already available material like kevlar.

There are some important questions. First, how much would it cost to do something like this?

We need to send about 160 million kilograms of material into space (See Birch's boot strap estimates in part 2: orionsarm.com/fm_store/OrbitalRings-II.pdf)

We have rockets available at $2000/kg costs to LEO today in "mass production" mode, which is only about 10-20 launches per year. Compared with the couple thousand launches necessary for a space elevator, $2000 is an unreasonably high upper bound for launch costs.

We also need to include the cost of materials. A space elevator is about 98% steel and aluminum, 1% kevlar, and 1% other such as superconducting magnets. Most of the mass (98%) cost around $1/kg, with an average cost per kilogram of no more than about $10 per kilogram.

Summing the above up, we get about $430 billion in launch costs plus another $1-2 billion in material costs.

In other words, we can have a space elevator for less than $450 billion - significantly less than one year worth of DoD spending, one bank bailout, many times less than a variety of pointless wars, etc. This is well within our reach financially in other words.

What do we get in return for this $450 billion investment?

Virtually unlimited value. For example, with a space elevator we can reliably launch our nuclear waste into the sun. We've spent $100 billion building a waste repository in Nevada, but it was ultimately decided not to even use it. Now it costs only a dollar or two per kilogram to get rid of all of the nuclear waste in the world.

Second, we have immediate access to viable asteroid mining industry. Because the cost of delivering payloads to LEO drops to about $1/kilogram, we can not retrieve asteroids with trillions of dollars worth of minerals for mere tens millions of dollars in addition to having an easy viable way of returning those resources back to the surface.

We acquire the ability to deploy profitable solar power in orbit above cloud cover and with the ability to return said power back to the surface with near zero loss by running power transmission cables down the elevator.

Just how profitable?

With increased luminosity in space, enhanced exposure time, and the ability to deliver base loads, solar panels pay for themselves in only 1-2 years while having a 20 year life time.

In other words, if you put $5 trillion of solar panels into space, you get your $5 trillion back by the end of year two and a $5 trillion income stream each year thereafter.

In other words, the US could cut everyone's taxes, both personal and business, income, capital, death, or otherwise, all to 0%, not even cut any benefits or current spending, and pay off the national debt within a decade.

trump is going to make nasa great again so you faggots better get on board for Moonbase 2020

It should already be obvious that the entirety of the political debate spectrum is cointelpro.

Are taxes too high or too low? Irrelevant, we don't actually need taxes.

Is social spending bankrupting us? Irrelevant, we can retire the national debt without cutting spending all while having no tax whatsoever.

What does this have to do with taking the red pill?

We've had the technological ability to undertake such a project for decades.

That means all the squabbling you have heard your entire life, money, debt, spending, taxes, scarcity, whatever, is all bullshit. Not only is it bullshit, anyone with rudimentary knowledge of the world has known that it is all bullshit for all of this time.

In other words, once you come to understand the such a project is and has been technically feasible for decades, you have to reevaluate many things.

Why is there nothing of this in the conspiracy media? They are not really trying to expose or solve any problems. One hundred percent of it is cointelpro. From the Young Turks to Infowars or whatever, they are all completely full of shit because solutions to our problems not only exist, are easy to carry out, but this has been the case for a very long time.

NASA is cool. I want to work for them and solder their CPUs

Yes. NASA should receive more funding and refocus on defense and exploration missions, opening up more room for private companies like SpaceX and Orbital Sciences to grow. NASA consistently has the highest morale of any executive agency, and plays an important social role in inspiring young people to think towards the future.

biggest deceivers of all time

I miss the worm logo.

They're hiding ayylmaos from us

Bump

i think its a huge waste of taxpayer money and needs to be investigated, ransacked and then obliterated

continuation of the nazi cult of saturn ever since operation paperclip, Jack Parsons JPL, etc.
also skeptical about ISS footage

waste of money

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