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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:01:52 PM EDT
[Last Edit: MATTINFAIRBORN]
I'll pass on commenting.
"NASA Administrator Bill Nelson is being mocked for suggesting the far side of the moon is always "dark" and can't explain why China is interested in exploring that part of the moon. "What do you think the Chinese are trying to get at, at the back side of the moon?" Rep. David Trone (D-MD) asked Nelson at a congressional hearing last week. "They are going to have a lander on the far side of the moon, which is the side which is always in dark. Uh, we're not planning to go there," he said." https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/space/2978857/nasa-administrator-no-idea-why-china-going-far-side-moon-always-dark/ |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:12:43 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:12:45 PM EDT
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Ballast Bill
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:14:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By HeavyMetal: Ballast Bill |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:15:01 PM EDT
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Larry Niven tells a story about being on a panel with the (then) NASA administrator regarding the space program. The audience was mainly journalists, and one asked the administrator when we were going to put a base on the Moon. The administrator looked puzzled and said "Why would anyone want to live on the Moon?"
Niven said "Let's see a show of hands - who here would go live on the Moon?" 9 out of 10 hands shot up. One man said "I'd have to ask my wife;" the man next to him looked at the first and said "I'd leave my wife." NASA has been more about bureaucracy than science for many, many years. |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:16:06 PM EDT
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#toospooky
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:16:52 PM EDT
[Last Edit: dorobuta]
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Well, according to the lunar experts, Pink Floyd, there is in fact a dark side of the moon.
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:23:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By dorobuta: Well, according to the lunar experts, Pink Floyd, there is in fact a dark side of the moon. https://assets-prd.ignimgs.com/2024/02/09/dark-side-of-the-moon-50-remaster-preorder-1707497550441.jpg The lunatic is on the grass |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:24:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By dorobuta: Well, according to the lunar experts, Pink Floyd, there is in fact a dark side of the moon. https://assets-prd.ignimgs.com/2024/02/09/dark-side-of-the-moon-50-remaster-preorder-1707497550441.jpg |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:28:34 PM EDT
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We're ruled by retards.
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:29:37 PM EDT
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I've seen several interviews with the man. He comes across like a guy who was hit in the head with a waffle iron about 40 times.
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AZ, USA
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:30:04 PM EDT
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LOL
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FM, USA
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:30:32 PM EDT
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"What do you think the Chinese are trying to get at, at the back side of the moon?" Rep. David Trone (D-MD) asked Nelson at a congressional hearing last week.
The Chinese are gonna try and take over the Nazi base on the back side of the moon. Asshoes will collide. |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:38:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By R2point0: Get that rainbow fag DEI shit outta here! Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By R2point0: Originally Posted By dorobuta: Well, according to the lunar experts, Pink Floyd, there is in fact a dark side of the moon. https://assets-prd.ignimgs.com/2024/02/09/dark-side-of-the-moon-50-remaster-preorder-1707497550441.jpg That album was released 50 years ago ,sir . Long before all this dei crap |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:39:33 PM EDT
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Bill Nelson is an idiot.
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:41:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4q2: That album was released 50 years ago ,sir . Long before all this dei crap Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4q2: Originally Posted By R2point0: Originally Posted By dorobuta: Well, according to the lunar experts, Pink Floyd, there is in fact a dark side of the moon. https://assets-prd.ignimgs.com/2024/02/09/dark-side-of-the-moon-50-remaster-preorder-1707497550441.jpg That album was released 50 years ago ,sir . Long before all this dei crap sarcasm can be hard sometimes |
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TN, USA
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:41:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Michaelson: We're Fixt |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:43:25 PM EDT
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The Chinese have an almost limitless supply of cheap flashlights, which is why going to the dark side of the moon isn't such a big deal for them.
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:45:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Blackbeard28: Bill Nelson is an idiot. I really need to let it go, but it turns me purple when I hear him referred to, constantly by local News, as “ former astronaut “ Bill Nelson. He’s a weasel former Congressman & Senator who used his position to get a ride on the space shuttle, unfortunately the wrong one. He was never selected, qualified, or part of the astronaut program. Ballast, nothing more. I hate that piece of shit, a rare thing for me. |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:46:16 PM EDT
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Obviously they want to land on the dark side as that's were all the Transformers technology is stashed at.
I used to have a t-shirt from the Johnson Space Center that said Rocket Scientist on it. I actually had a guy come up to me asking if I really was one as he had questions to ask. |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:47:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Agilt: sarcasm can be hard sometimes Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Agilt: Originally Posted By 4q2: Originally Posted By R2point0: Originally Posted By dorobuta: Well, according to the lunar experts, Pink Floyd, there is in fact a dark side of the moon. https://assets-prd.ignimgs.com/2024/02/09/dark-side-of-the-moon-50-remaster-preorder-1707497550441.jpg That album was released 50 years ago ,sir . Long before all this dei crap sarcasm can be hard sometimes You are correct . Hard to tell anymore 
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:49:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Blackbeard28: Bill Nelson is an idiot. |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:53:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Michaelson: We're ruled by retards. |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:57:07 PM EDT
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Bill Nelson is neither a scientist nor an engineer. Unless you count political science.
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Posted: 4/25/2024 1:08:38 PM EDT
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 Scientist Of Trinidad And Tobago Want To Build A Rocket To Go To The Sun???? |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 1:22:01 PM EDT
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I wonder what gems of brilliance would come out during an interview with Bill Nelson on The View. Unwatchable it would be. The highlight reel would be gold.
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Posted: 4/25/2024 2:44:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By runcible: The Chinese have an almost limitless supply of cheap flashlights, which is why going to the dark side of the moon isn't such a big deal for them. Valid point. I'll bet the noncritical areas are lit by those red/blue flashing balls that you have to smack to start up. |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 2:53:18 PM EDT
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Clarence William Nelson II (born September 29, 1942) is an American politician and attorney ...A member of the Democratic Party...Nelson received a Bachelor of Arts with a major in political science from Yale University https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Nelson Yeah, this guy is just another Ivy League political hack. Are there any more questions about why NASA has spent 10s of billions of dollars on a spacecraft that hasn't taken anyone anywhere? |
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GA, USA
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Posted: 4/25/2024 3:17:03 PM EDT
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The guy is not an idiot.
He’s a politician lawyer that’s pretty bright. But with essentially no science background and his astronaut time was basically an along for the ride citizen astronaut political stunt “payload specialist.” He’s also in his 80s. If he had been a kick ass new MD/PHD in virology 55 years ago, then spent 20 years researching viruses, then got a ride on the space shuttle to study viruses in space once, then another 40 years basically managing some company that makes antivirals or being in some state and .gov admin roles about viruses, then suddenly became head of NASA- He’d be equally clueless about some pretty basic stuff regarding space. Which is how our government works. |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 3:25:16 PM EDT
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Guys like Bill Nelson are in charge of spending trillions of our tax dollars.
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AL, USA
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Posted: 4/25/2024 3:28:03 PM EDT
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Dudes over fucking 80 just like every other fucking person running our country. Dudes been in government since 1972, longer than i've fucking been alive. Dude became an "astronaut" as a house rep.
Also, NASA is a very flat org compared to most government agencies so usually the actual center heads are usually much better than the NASA HQ director. Most centers are their own operating "entity" even though there's overlap/coordination on certain things and on the larger programs everyone kind of has a piece of the pie. |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 3:34:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By runcible: The Chinese have an almost limitless supply of cheap flashlights, which is why going to the dark side of the moon isn't such a big deal for them. |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 3:37:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ramairthree: The guy is not an idiot. He's a politician lawyer that's pretty bright. But with essentially no science background and his astronaut time was basically an along for the ride citizen astronaut political stunt "payload specialist." He's also in his 80s. If he had been a kick ass new MD/PHD in virology 55 years ago, then spent 20 years researching viruses, then got a ride on the space shuttle to study viruses in space once, then another 40 years basically managing some company that makes antivirals or being in some state and .gov admin roles about viruses, then suddenly became head of NASA- He'd be equally clueless about some pretty basic stuff regarding space. Which is how our government works. |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 3:42:32 PM EDT
[Last Edit: PaladinM1911]
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I liked NASA better in the 90's, when the guy from Sling Blade ran things, I reckon,
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Posted: 4/25/2024 3:44:42 PM EDT
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he thinks theres no cheese on the other side. he is so wrong
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Posted: 4/25/2024 3:52:51 PM EDT
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He has never heard of synchronous rotation, he isn’t a scientist, he is an idiot.
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Posted: 4/25/2024 4:51:24 PM EDT
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Rick Scott pushed out Skeletor Nelson from the senate. Let that sink in, Lord Voldemort topped that POS. That's what our choices were in FL
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Posted: 4/25/2024 7:47:19 PM EDT
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The Man In The Moon faces us so that tells us what is on the other side. The backside. China is asshoe. It is only natural for them to explore there.
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Posted: 4/25/2024 8:10:02 PM EDT
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Heard an interview on WMAL about this, saying something about the moon has something like helium3?? Can be used for nuclear power without the radiation. Said China wants to mine the moon.
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Posted: 4/25/2024 8:43:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Michaelson: We're ruled by retards. He was a House member and a Senator for Florida before getting this gig. Democrat. Hank Johnson Shelia Jackson Lee level smart. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:35:51 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Blackbeard28: Bill Nelson is an idiot. And David Trone is right behind him. Trone is running against Larry Hogan for senator and all polls show him losing. This will be the first time in almost 40 years where my vote in MD actually means something. I'm not wild about Hogan, but at least he's not a leftist wacko like Trone. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 10:23:47 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By jmt1991: And David Trone is right behind him. Trone is running against Larry Hogan for senator and all polls show him losing. This will be the first time in almost 40 years where my vote in MD actually means something. I'm not wild about Hogan, but at least he's not a leftist wacko like Trone. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 11:04:47 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By dorobuta: Well, according to the lunar experts, Pink Floyd, there is in fact a dark side of the moon. https://assets-prd.ignimgs.com/2024/02/09/dark-side-of-the-moon-50-remaster-preorder-1707497550441.jpg |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 11:20:14 AM EDT
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MAYBE he meant "dark" in terms of radio communications.
Zero point in putting anything on the dark side of the moon because you would never hear from it. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 12:18:09 PM EDT
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It is the dark side of the moon. It has been. It still is. Especially dark when we've had men up there.
It's only what, this year or the past handful of years, that someone has put the necessary comms into place to bring the light of comms to the surface? This was a budget hearing where funding was 10% less, or more than what was in the PBR. With a significant amount of floor time being devoted to representative who were trying to get justifications for the cuts in their districts, how much time was there for ad hoc funding increases as a reaction to China doing something where we don't seem to have any readily visible mission coverage? Context matters. Full statements matter. Full understandings matter. Anything short is rhetoric. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 12:19:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By The_Reaper: MAYBE he meant "dark" in terms of radio communications. Zero point in putting anything on the dark side of the moon because you would never hear from it. |
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