Bush wants new expeditions to the Moon and Mars. Good idea?

[Sam_Stone]

I thought this would be a good place to post this:

NASA to Announce ‘Significant Findings’ of Water on Mars Tuesday.

On Sunday SPACE.com reported a “palpable buzz” among Mars Exploration Rover (MER) scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena. Sources indicated that a coherent picture of the geology of the rover landing sites was emerging.

Speculation that the announcement might involve any discussion of biology has not been confirmed.

However, there have been repeated observations at the Opportunity site that have puzzled the Mars rover scientists. Using the rover’s Microscopic Imager, the strange spherules, thread-like features and even a larger object detected in rock outcrop have sparked scientific discussion – both inside and outside of the Mars rover team – as to whether they are tied to biology.

Press conference at 2PM EST tomorrow. It’ll be on NASATV. You can watch it here.

[The_Broken_Column]

Carnivorousplant, it is because of poverty that most Saudi Arabians become “terrorists” not because of US influences, do a tad bit more reading on terrorist breeding in Saudi Arabia there was a good report about how the current poverty levels are creating much more terrorists than there would be otherwise.

Jshore, the private sector has currently invented, Hydrogen Fuel Cells, Wind Turbines, the “kilometer high thermal plant” that’s a good one. In Austrailia is where they plant to test that out. I giant kilometer high tower with a vast greenhouse below all that heat rising up to turn turbines and the greenhouse to grow food.

The Bush Administration is not capable of handing money out as it wills, it must get Congress to do this.

Rather than posting a bunch of numbers, how about you post the Congressional “String attachments” to see what they plan to see done with the Money. For all you know the subsidies could be going to cleaning up the facilities’s waste products.

You are too superficial. Especially if all you care about is how much money goes to what.

It is after all, a petrol-company that developed one of the better working Hydrogen Fuel Cells for a car, not some “futuristic think tank that has nothing to do with Oil”.

[The_Broken_Column]

Ooo! Ooo! Good, that PDF file you gave me does have a summary I suppose that’s ok…but more indepth congressional report would be better.

But here let’s look at a few!

Hmm there are Bills for Nuclear Power Plant Optimization.

There are Bills to shut certain plants down (as you know the federal government can’t force anything out of business or such if it is not to compensate it.)

Incintives for Current Nuclear Power Plants to produce more efficient energy that is 1 million dollars for every kilowatt-hour increase.

Doesnt seem too bad.

Also, if your argument was “Why does the Government give them money if they can handle it on their own?”

The Government gives everyone money after all everyone pays taxes.

The point there was that there is NO incentive for Space Exploration. The Government has to drive that and it does so through NASA.