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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.

Makes the Liberal Sponsership Scandal seam just a little minor eh?

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.

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?

Just as long as it's constructed out of unbreakable diamond filament...

Carbon fiber tube...........which is actually fairly plausible now.



Especially with that kinda money.

NASA head admits they made mistakes:

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


About bloody time. F00kin' aero's

NASA puts on space elevator contest:

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


Go Univ. of Sask.

Anybody catch the impact this weekend?

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


Craters on the moon can be fun

Well, here's the followup:

http://www.newscientistspace.com/articl ... news_rss20

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.

Pics of Endeavor's tile gash:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=662

Just put some duct tape on it, it should be good

NASA suing NASA:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/ ... Checks.php

Russians blame NASA for computer crash:

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

Turns out, it was a blunder of their own.