Chad Milbrandt is a member of The Tribune Youth Editorial Board.
stockman - 30/1/2008 10:57 AMHow the heck did you come across this Jim?
Jim - 30/1/2008 11:29 AMQuotestockman - 30/1/2008 10:57 AMHow the heck did you come across this Jim?The first place I go every morning and several more times each dayhttp://www.spacetoday.net/
stockman - 30/1/2008 5:14 PMQuoteJim - 30/1/2008 11:29 AMQuotestockman - 30/1/2008 10:57 AMHow the heck did you come across this Jim?The first place I go every morning and several more times each dayhttp://www.spacetoday.net/ Thanks for the pointer Jim. I will have to add that to my list.
stockman - 30/1/2008 11:14 AMQuoteJim - 30/1/2008 11:29 AMQuotestockman - 30/1/2008 10:57 AMHow the heck did you come across this Jim?The first place I go every morning and several more times each dayhttp://www.spacetoday.net/ Thanks for the pointer Jim. I will have to add that to my list.
Vladimir_m - 13/3/2008 4:23 PMWow, what a great thread this has proven to be...The discussion evident on this page offers a wonderfully precise example illustrating the degree of maturity enjoyed by participating forum members. What gives you the right to completely disregard this young man's (Chad) arguments because of his age or his location? Such personal attacks do nothing to promote discourse over the subject matter. For a site privy to so much potential, all is for nothing if we do not value the exchange of ideas. Furthermore, not one member here attempted to remedy the (so called) flaws/errors in Chad's article, nor offered to post a rebuttal. Your omission only augments my initial assertion of your cowardice, immaturity, and your general disparaging disposition. As for Chad's arguments, his opinions are completely well-founded, well-argued, and accurate. Perhaps it is his stinging criticism that has exposed your intellectual insecurities and agitated your cosmic complacency. How dare you silence his opinions as "Idealistic"! Was it not "Idealism" that initiated the entire space movement?Perhaps that classic one-liner is appropriate: Why don't you all go to the library and brush up on your ignorance?
Vladimir_m - 13/3/2008 5:23 PMWow, what a great thread this has proven to be...The discussion evident on this page offers a wonderfully precise example illustrating the degree of maturity enjoyed by participating forum members. What gives you the right to completely disregard this young man's (Chad) arguments because of his age or his location? Such personal attacks do nothing to promote discourse over the subject matter. For a site privy to so much potential, all is for nothing if we do not value the exchange of ideas. Furthermore, not one member here attempted to remedy the (so called) flaws/errors in Chad's article, nor offered to post a rebuttal. Your omission only augments my initial assertion of your cowardice, immaturity, and your general disparaging disposition. As for Chad's arguments, his opinions are completely well-founded, well-argued, and accurate. Perhaps it is his stinging criticism that has exposed your intellectual insecurities and agitated your cosmic complacency. How dare you silence his opinions as "Idealistic"! Was it not "Idealism" that initiated the entire space movement?Perhaps that classic one-liner is appropriate: Why don't you all go to the library and brush up on your ignorance?
There are also earmarks. From wikipedia: "Congress' year-end budget passed in December 2007 contains nearly 10,000 Congressional earmarks worth $10.4 billion, according to a comprehensive database compiled by Taxpayers for Common Sense." Why are those not mentioned?
Does the questioner have any idea what any of the money in the above budget is spent on for any of the departments listed? Can the questioner name products or specific services from all of the departments in the above budget? Does the questioner have any idea what NASA research has resulted in? Doing a google search on “NASA-developed technology”, “partnership with NASA”, “NASA/Debakey heart pump”, “NASA and diabetes research”, etc., yields tens of thousands of hits. A quick look at some of these shows several interesting stories. A fireproofing coating was developed from Apollo heat shield technology (http://www.chartek.com/). You want to address hunger? How about this, "Technology Predicts African Food Shortages" (http://desertification.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/technology-to-predict-african-food-shortages-scidevnet/):
"Satellite data could soon help predict and manage food shortages in Africa, with the help of a new model developed by NASA. Molly Brown, from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre, has developed a model that combines remotely-sensed crop data with grain prices to predict changes in food prices in the future. “We hope that the model can directly benefit small and medium sized traders and businessmen in the region once it becomes operational,” Brown told SciDev.Net."
How about research in medicine? Go to the NASA Technical Reports Server (http://ntrs.nasa.gov) and you can find research papers such as: "Melatonin concentrations in the sudden infant death syndrome". Decades of historical aeronautical research (8000+ reports) done by the NASA predecessor agency (NACA) can be found at http://naca.larc.nasa.gov. Do a search at the NTRS web site on "air traffic safety" and you get over 400 technical reports listed.
You can do a Google search on pretty much NASA+{anything} and come up with results that show how NASA R&D has affected what we do and how we live, a lot of it in the area of health and safety.
I'd also like to see examples of where funding has been taken from any of the agencies above and has been redirected to have a significant impact on eliminating hunger, disease, or whatever.
I could go on and on.
Jon
HIPAR - 30/1/2008 9:47 AMAnother idealistic young person indoctrinated with the belief that we can remedy what's wrong here by depriving mankind of the pitiful few human endeavors that make our efforts on earth right.Give that essay an A+ for elegance of composition.--- CHAS
Hi Chad!