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by Skipjack
Sun Feb 14, 2010 11:58 am
Forum: General
Topic: Obama Space Plan Is At Outline Stage
Replies: 39
Views: 16868

I think it is awesome!
Constellation was a money sink, a government job programme and an expensive one at that. Taxes were used to create jobs that produce something that the government pays for over and over again. Not a good businessmodel (for the government).
by Skipjack
Wed Feb 10, 2010 8:46 pm
Forum: General
Topic: REU project
Replies: 1
Views: 1803

"I know what you did last summer"

Sorry, could not resist ;)
Cool stuff!
by Skipjack
Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:12 pm
Forum: General
Topic: So how much things are "improving" in the muslim w
Replies: 218
Views: 69907

The Byzantine Empire issued a plea for help from their fellow Christians in Europe. This plea was answered. Well, actually one of the crusades (I am not sure anymore, I think it was the third) had the only goal to destroy the Byzantine Empire and the eastern church. It lead to the complete and fina...
by Skipjack
Sat Feb 06, 2010 5:39 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Rebel Engineers Talk To NASA
Replies: 44
Views: 11002

But Jupiter will never have enough launches to be cost effective. Just like the shuttle. Each individual launch will be too expensive and the total number of heavy lift launches that are needed worldwide is too low. That is why Ariane 6 will actually have LESS payload than Ariane 5 currently has. So...
by Skipjack
Sat Feb 06, 2010 5:32 pm
Forum: General
Topic: So how much things are "improving" in the muslim w
Replies: 218
Views: 69907

If you think this wikipedia entry was rewritten by some Winston Smith, please tell me, with a reference. Sorry I cant right now. I only know this from my grandfather. He was quite young during that time, but he was smart and he did get a lot of things. Anyway, he cited this quite often as an exampl...
by Skipjack
Sat Feb 06, 2010 7:27 am
Forum: General
Topic: So how much things are "improving" in the muslim w
Replies: 218
Views: 69907

As far as I know decimation was more a Roman practice and a quite older one. Maybe you are reminding the 1917 mutinies after which 50 soldiers were court-martialled and shot to make an example. Ah yeah, it is only 50 now. I see. I guess if you give it a couple more decades, it never happened. LOL O...
by Skipjack
Fri Feb 05, 2010 8:44 pm
Forum: General
Topic: So how much things are "improving" in the muslim w
Replies: 218
Views: 69907

"In this country, it is wise to kill an admiral from time to time to give courage to the others." This kinda reminds me of the last decimation in history. During WW1, the french had every 10th soldier of an army (cant remember anymore which one it was)step foreward to report to the execution. To im...
by Skipjack
Thu Feb 04, 2010 9:24 pm
Forum: General
Topic: So how much things are "improving" in the muslim w
Replies: 218
Views: 69907

Now one has to understand that a lot of what is happening in the muslim world is not just a religious problem, but also a nationality problem. I think it has in part to do with how the usual suspects decided to draw borders in the region and to split up things among then... until they left. Every no...
by Skipjack
Thu Feb 04, 2010 8:04 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Hillarious Carbon Credit Debacle
Replies: 0
Views: 721

Hillarious Carbon Credit Debacle

This is just to funny to pass up. http://gizmodo.com/5464326/phishing-for-carbon-hackers-steal-millions-in-emissions-certificates Personally I think the while carbon credits thing is ridiculous bullcrap (independendly of whether AGW exists or not), but as usual noone ever asks me. So whoever bought ...
by Skipjack
Thu Feb 04, 2010 7:48 pm
Forum: General
Topic: So how much things are "improving" in the muslim w
Replies: 218
Views: 69907

You mean by funding mosques and then using that as an in to ensure that the Islam taught there is according to Saudi ideology?
Osama bin Laden is saudi.
by Skipjack
Thu Feb 04, 2010 7:48 pm
Forum: General
Topic: So how much things are "improving" in the muslim w
Replies: 218
Views: 69907

The Saudis are responsible for the vast majority of "home grown" terrorists in America.
Yeah and Bush sold them the security of your harbors. Hillarious!
by Skipjack
Wed Feb 03, 2010 8:46 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Entirely Peer Reviewed Reports
Replies: 16
Views: 3419

Yep. I've had hobbyspace's RSS feed piped into one of my browsers for a couple of years now. Been an avid reader of the site ever since it came to life. The news are top and the main topic (LVs and RLVs) is what interests me most. I dont care too much about unmanned probes, or the latest hubble pic...
by Skipjack
Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:57 am
Forum: General
Topic: So how much things are "improving" in the muslim w
Replies: 218
Views: 69907

It would serve as a galvanising force to unite what is now a disparate collection of infinghting Arabs.
True, one of the very few things that prevents the muslims of this world to go after each other is their common hate for Israel and the US due to their support for it.
by Skipjack
Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:53 am
Forum: General
Topic: Entirely Peer Reviewed Reports
Replies: 16
Views: 3419

Hobby space is IMHO the best resource in regards to information on the whole matter. I completely share Clarks opinion on all this as well. I recommend you go there and read up a bit. It is very informative: http://www.hobbyspace.com/nucleus/index.php Generally I dont see why the commercials would n...
by Skipjack
Wed Feb 03, 2010 8:14 am
Forum: General
Topic: Entirely Peer Reviewed Reports
Replies: 16
Views: 3419

Btw, "cuts NASA" is a gross missrepresentation of reality. Their budget increase was not as big as they wanted it to be. That is a long way from "cuts"!