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Post by inconceivable on Dec 11, 2008 17:22:15 GMT -4
The projected cost for the whole Constellation program is to be $217 Billion. Obama could put us all to work for NASA. Maybe this will equate into more jobs for the struggling economy.
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Post by PhantomWolf on Dec 11, 2008 19:33:13 GMT -4
The projected cost for the whole Constellation program is to be $217 Billion. Obama could put us all to work for NASA. Maybe this will equate into more jobs for the struggling economy. Over about 16 years, a total of about 13 billion a year.
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Post by PhantomWolf on Dec 11, 2008 19:35:41 GMT -4
The real thing is that the Shuttle is being retired in 2010 through 2012, if Constellation is delayed to flight in 2014 then the US will be without a manned space program for more than 2 years. The return to the Moon is merely an extention of the Constellation programme and not set for until 2020, so the recession will be long over, likely it will be over before the Shuttle retires.
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Post by gillianren on Dec 11, 2008 21:21:50 GMT -4
explain what do you mean? Sigh. Do you educate yourself about anything? In a socialist state, much of the economy involves state-run organizations. Ergo, a socialist state creates government jobs. It's, you know, the definition of the word.
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Post by smlbstcbr on Dec 12, 2008 13:01:47 GMT -4
I second that definition of socialist country for government jobs. But I believe that Constellation and Orion will go on. Obama remarked that US should be leading the outer space investigation when Chandrayaan 1 was launched.
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Post by lionking on Dec 12, 2008 14:49:52 GMT -4
explain what do you mean? Sigh. Do you educate yourself about anything? In a socialist state, much of the economy involves state-run organizations. Ergo, a socialist state creates government jobs. It's, you know, the definition of the word. I know that much of the economy is socialism invloves government but I was asking what would this indicate ? I was speaking of the concept of redistributing fortune in socialism, not giving a small bunch of ppl the bulk ofthe things. it is how you distribute things along governmental institutions.. that's what I meant.
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Post by Apollo Gnomon on Dec 16, 2008 12:27:08 GMT -4
This is from a news link on a military website:
Space is cheap, compared to war. War creates less jobs.
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Post by raven on Dec 21, 2008 2:13:27 GMT -4
This is from a news link on a military website: Space is cheap, compared to war. War creates less jobs. Arthur C. Clarke mentioned a hope in 2064 (which is my personal favorite of the quadrilogy) that the exploration of space would become the 'moral equivalent of war.' I too have that hope, though sadly, I don't see it happening any time soon on it's own. But then, what does?
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Post by inconceivable on Jan 7, 2009 23:49:37 GMT -4
update: Alcoa is laying off 13% of it's global work force. In the Quad Cities where Alcoa is manufacturing the Aluminum 2195 thinplate alloy for the Ares 1 and V5 launch vehicles they are laying off workers. Should we be concerned about making the 2020 goal?
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Post by Grand Lunar on Jan 8, 2009 8:17:31 GMT -4
No.
As mentioned to you before (and which you likely didn't bother to read) the recession is likely to be over long before then.
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Post by echnaton on Jan 8, 2009 11:22:32 GMT -4
Alcoa may not event be around in 2020. But someone will be around to make the parts.
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Post by Jason on Jan 8, 2009 12:11:02 GMT -4
Arthur C. Clarke mentioned a hope in 2064 (which is my personal favorite of the quadrilogy) that the exploration of space would become the 'moral equivalent of war.' I too have that hope, though sadly, I don't see it happening any time soon on it's own. But then, what does? Has exploration ever been the "moral equivalent of war"?
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