Mon Dec 13, 2004 12:51 am
Originally posted by hightimber
Yeah, the guys who put men on the moon, run a shuttle program, put probes around almost every planet in our solar system, landed rovers on Mars, orbited a space telescope, have an orbiting international space station, etc.... they're all morons.
Pot calling kettle black.....
Hightimber, you are exactly right Like NASA is dumb. The massive amount of mathematics and technology that go into a mission escapes many average people.
Mon Dec 13, 2004 12:57 am
I never said NASA was doing everything right. I took exception to you saying they were morons. Your statement in and of itself is moronic.Originally posted by LordShard
What makes you think the way they are doing things now is right? I woulnd't keep sending up small super expensive sattalites. I would do it in a way to get Corporate backers to finanace it. Maybe promise the company that backs you with promise that anything relative to their field of study they can patent.
Then you might have enough money to actually do something other than send a probe into the dirt every few months.
I mean come on, they have probes going to asteriod, we already know their made out of the same things everyone is. With maybe a very small exception every now and then.
If we are going to find any "new" stabstances occuring naturally it won't be in this solar system. But before we can even think about going to even the closest other system (alpha centarii) we would need to research something better than an ion drive, because it would take some thousands of years for an ion drive to reach alpha centarii, half the time spent speeding up, half the time spent slowing down.
We haven't even tried to do anything with men other than ordbit ourselves since we touched on the moon. So maybe, they arn't doing something right?
Oh, and it's s-a-t-e-l-l-i-t-e......
Mon Dec 13, 2004 1:07 am
They are morons to not double check that everything was installed properly.Originally posted by hightimber
I never said NASA was doing everything right. I took exception to you saying they were morons. Your statement in and of itself is moronic.
Oh, and it's s-a-t-e-l-l-i-t-e......
Making fun of a misspelling in and of itself is moronic.
I never have thought of NASA as a place of doing things right. Always half backwards.
Mon Dec 13, 2004 1:14 am
Not double-checking your spelling is moronic. Your attitude is typical of the general populace. All of you naysayers want to concentrate on what people do wrong and ignore everything they do that's right. You have a great potential future in journalism.Originally posted by LordShard
They are morons to not double check that everything was installed properly.
Making fun of a misspelling in and of itself is moronic.
I never have thought of NASA as a place of doing things right. Always half backwards.
Mon Dec 13, 2004 1:21 am
I don't need to double check my spelling, it's only a forum. Now if it were a paper for class, then I would.Originally posted by hightimber
Not double-checking your spelling is moronic. Your attitude is typical of the general populace. All of you naysayers want to concentrate on what people do wrong and ignore everything they do that's right. You have a great potential future in journalism.
If you give NASA a target and their sole purpose frm that point on untilthat objective is acheived, they can do really good. Like going to the moon for instance, their only purpose was to get to the moon first. And they did a good job of it to, however they have no direction right now. Think about it, ask ANYONE other than nasa about it.
Questionman:"Ok, we've just landed on the moon, now what do we do?"
Answerman:"Put up thousands and thousands of probes into space at hundreds of millions of dollars each?"
No one will give you that answer. Just because NASA has the supposedly geniuses of the entire world doesn't mean they arn't morons. Now if you maybe gave NASA a mission, a sole purpose, that until it is acheived all other projects on hold, they could do it really well. But building an endless chain of probes to EVERY single astriod, comet and ect. Even just putting them in space to learn what solar wind is made out of is moronic.
Mon Dec 13, 2004 1:25 am
I must say, hightimber came back to the forums just to dispute my remark that NASA are morons! I must be more popular than I originally thought. 
Mon Dec 13, 2004 8:42 am
Originally posted by SGT DEVILDOG
Hightimber, you are exactly right Like NASA is dumb. The massive amount of mathematics and technology that go into a mission escapes many average people.
And yet the common sense to make sure clamps are put on the right way eludes these elite mathematic engineers.
They may be able to decipher a math problem that to me looks like Klingon letters, but at least I have the common sense to make sure the landing of a probe on Mars is not in the middle of a heavily cratered area, or to make sure the team working in the US and the team working in Europe make sure they are both using the same units of measurements so another probe doesn't hit the planet at such a speed it is totaled on impact.
Mon Dec 13, 2004 9:22 am
I agree with Jimmy
Mon Dec 13, 2004 9:24 am
holey moley, Jimmy agrees with me!:DOriginally posted by JimmyTango
And yet the common sense to make sure clamps are put on the right way eludes these elite mathematic engineers.
They may be able to decipher a math problem that to me looks like Klingon letters, but at least I have the common sense to make sure the landing of a probe on Mars is not in the middle of a heavily cratered area, or to make sure the team working in the US and the team working in Europe make sure they are both using the same units of measurements so another probe doesn't hit the planet at such a speed it is totaled on impact.
I must be onto something here!
Mon Dec 13, 2004 4:35 pm
This is more a project management problem, not an engineering or design problem. It's certainly not limited to NASA, it's process-related. Any big project with teams from different organizations will suffer from documentation and communication problems.
Mon Dec 13, 2004 8:55 pm
Nice wording.
Mon Dec 13, 2004 10:33 pm
Thank you for your sanity.Originally posted by Chacal
This is more a project management problem, not an engineering or design problem. It's certainly not limited to NASA, it's process-related. Any big project with teams from different organizations will suffer from documentation and communication problems.
Mon Dec 13, 2004 10:34 pm
Sometimes people hit a hot button with me. Categorizing all NASA people as morons is more than I can ignore.Originally posted by LordShard
I must say, hightimber came back to the forums just to dispute my remark that NASA are morons! I must be more popular than I originally thought.
Mon Dec 13, 2004 10:53 pm
Heloooo!!! Government agency! How much do you really expect out of them?
That being said, I agree with hightimber, NASA has contributed so much, why do we dwell on a little satellite?
That being said, I agree with hightimber, NASA has contributed so much, why do we dwell on a little satellite?
Re: Anouther NASA boomsticker
Mon Dec 13, 2004 10:57 pm
Originally posted by LordShard
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa001&articleID=000A0D39-7893-1178-AD6883414B7F0000
I think that even though NASA is supposed to have the brightest minds in the world, they still arn't smart enough.
what is a boomsticker?