He was five years old when the first shuttle took off and came back and now he's 35. What a racket?

Question

How many poor people do we have in America (which is the United States) and how much money has it been costing us in tax dollars to keep sending that piece of **** in the sky that punctures our ozone each time it comes and goes? Who really gets paid for the actions to violate or perpetrate upon our rights to civilized loans to purchase homes and decent automobiles?

Seems like DrDebate is more like the but of a cigarette to me. And if you come and go too much in one place you can create an opening. Go back to school sweet-bubba.

Its possible, I may stand corrected - sweetbubba, so I guess we need to start keeping that money from the Jews and from Iraq. I might be up for that. Most definitely. Much respect.

Answer 1

and what should we do with all of that money......give it to the poor...so they can stay drunk, lazy and uneducated

Answer 2

The space program from the very beginning has generated so many advances in engineering, medicine, clothing, etc that the cost is minimal. If you went through your home today, over 75% of the items would be the quality they are because of space travel. And it does not puncture the ozone just as you diving into a body of water does not puncture the water for more than the second, it never hurts the ozone.

Answer 3

Personally I love and support the program. If and when we run out of space here on Earth we need to have explored the atmosphere and what else is out there. Working on the Space program from the race to a co-operative effort has brought the US and Russia together. You can not put a cost on that detente.
It is no racket. The funds have been severely cut. That is why I know it was hard to land at Edwards but I was relieved. They had three more options, five in all today. They aborted the first here in Florida due to low lying clouds and rain w/in the specified zone.
What is a racket is we do send up some satellites for private companies. China sent some up for African nations. Everybody and their dog has a satellite up for something. Meanwhile, our weather satellite that aides us to monitor hurricanes is old and faulty. NO money to replace it. So next natural disaster you can be sure your concerns are put to rest. We did not waste any money on the prevention. Kinda like healthcare not paying for preventative medicine & efforts.
The rest of your question baffles me. Thanks.

Answer 4

Much of today's technology is a by-product of NASA and space research. If anything, we have let our future down by reducing the funding needed to advance space exploration.

Poor people are poor because of the their choices, not because we didn't fund a lunch program in DC or cut back on food stamps. People are a result of the actions they take and the refusal to take responsibility of those actions.

Children being born to single parent families, white or black. Parents allowing children to NOT attend school, or allow them free run of the streets...that is what keeps people poor.

Purchasing homes and "Decent" automobiles come from hard work and life planning, they are not god-given rights.

The next song you download or video you watch on the Internet, or your next bag of microwave popcorn, you can thank the space program. As for the poor, why does America's poor have a weight problem? Think about it.

And don't worry about the ozone....that hole plugs itself up....we'll be just fine.

Answer 5

The shuttle goes up carrying satellites and other important things that corporations pay good money to lift up into space. So its funded in part by the payloads it takes up there.

They just conduct experiments up there while they're delivering the payloads.

Otherwise, I agree with the guy above who mentions the fact that the ozone is not "punctured". Its an element like are or the ocean.

If you want cheap cars and houses, write your senator and congressman. Ask them why we are sending aid packages to developed nations and giving million dollar per year gifts to foreign leaders.

Sounds sane to you? Not me.

But don't get down on my main-man NASA for sending scrap up into space. That's our next frontier. You know, like in Star Trek. To go boldly where no man has ever gone before, and I don't mean Ellen Degeneris' nether-regions.

Answer 6

NASA is actually a relatively small part of the federal budget.

You also can't physically 'punch holes' in the ozone layer. I know the shuttle looks big sitting on the ground, but compared to the ozone layer it's insignificant.

Answer 7

You are an idiot. You can't puncture a whole in the ozone any more then you can punch a whole in the ocean. Elements and events from space effect Earth a lot more then you realize and satellites save and better countless lives through weather monitoring, communications and even spying on terrorists. The homeless cannot be helped by giving them money, they need to be properly motivated. You are just a winy little *****.


I need to go back to school? You're an idiot. You don't get to tell a toddler to go back to school; and "butt" has two "t"s in it.

Answer 8

I don't know who you're talking about, but the first space shuttle, Enterprise, took off in 1977. That's 30 years ago. It didn't fly in space, but it did fly. Columbia was the first to actually reach Earth orbit, in 1981, but Enterprise was the prototype, and if someone was 5 when it first flew, then he's 35 now.

But then, if right-wingers like you could do math, we wouldn't have gone since 1960 with no Republican Presidents balancing the budget, ever.

Answer 9

I think I watched an episode of the "Twilight Zone" with you in it.
Still trapped in there, huh?

Answer 10

As someone may have said in an answer to one of my questions earlier today, "It might be time to change your bong water."