Saturday, December 10, 2016

Japan's Successful Launch to Supply the Space Station

If you have been keeping score, you know there's been a successful rocket launch every few days going back for four or five launches.  Trump's intention to slash NASA is extremely short-sighted.  The space business is booming and that doesn't mean exploding when you can see the success of all in this series of launches.




Throwing away NASA means giving up space since China already has a minimal version of a space station and excluding them from the International Space Station was yet another piece of America's provincial stupidity.  Whomever controls space has it all since you take out the satellites and America's military goes back to paper maps and hand-held compasses.  Throw them a flashlight since they will be fumbling around in the dark most of the time.

Even if nothing else, that might force them to behave better.


Supplying the space station is important but the launch also orbited a test vehicle to seek out space junk.  (RT: Japan launches space junk collector into orbit)

It's such a bitch if you get through all the dangers and rigors of getting into orbit and then get whacked by some space junk which some organization was too irresponsible to collect.  Maybe you remember the Pentagon shooting missiles into space to blow up any attacking space vehicles.  Those foolhardy experiments left junk all over the place which is characteristic of the Pentagon's arrogance, short-sightedness, and total lack of concern for the future.


I'm not much concerned over offending Lotho with this one since I've never noticed any militarism in him and I've got some personal information to back that but it stays offline.  I may be wrong but he seems interested primarily as the fiscal conservative and I don't agree with the method but, ultimately, both of us want the same thing:  we want Washington to show at least the minimal restraint a schoolgirl shows when she goes to The Gap with her first credit card.

Ed:  they usually don't show any responsibility.

Nope, they sure don't.

Ed:  so schoolboys are more responsible?

Like hell, they'll go out and blow that newfound credit on a shiny new Mustang and be in serious debt for five or six years.


The future is in space and addressing that is only doing good business.  Besides, cutting NASA accomplishes almost nothing since it's only a tiny part of the budget.

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