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I'd love to be in charge of finance at NASA:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... ce_nasa_dc


Whoops! Lost $565 billion................my bad guys. ;)
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Makes the Liberal Sponsership Scandal seam just a little minor eh?
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Eh, we're not done finding out everything. ;)

But seriously, 1/2 a trillion dollars? That's a lot of money. John Carmack's thoughts on the space industry seem a lot more relevant now what with wastage of that level.
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This would be one h3lluva drop if the cable broke:

http://keithcu.com/wordpress/?p=6

http://www.techcentralstation.com/092105C.html



A space elevator. You've got a $100 billion US dollars so........wtf not?
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Just as long as it's constructed out of unbreakable diamond filament...
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Carbon fiber tube...........which is actually fairly plausible now.



Especially with that kinda money. 8)
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NASA head admits they made mistakes:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/sp ... view_x.htm


About bloody time. F00kin' aero's :roll:
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NASA puts on space elevator contest:

http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn8203


Go Univ. of Sask.
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Anybody catch the impact this weekend?

http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060828/ ... 28-12.html


Craters on the moon can be fun 8)
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NASA climate data suffered from bug:

http://www.dailytech.com/Blogger+finds+ ... le8383.htm

Was fixed and 1998 is no longer the hottest year. In fact, 5 of the 10 were pre WWII.
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Pics of Endeavor's tile gash:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=662
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Just put some duct tape on it, it should be good
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Russians blame NASA for computer crash:

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/print/5598

Turns out, it was a blunder of their own.
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