Trying to find views of this hasn't been very easy, anyone know what each candidates views are?

I know Hillary said she'd support it and Obama wants to delay it (Project Constellation)

12/9/2007 9:07:45 PM

I hope they are for privatizing it.

12/9/2007 9:08:50 PM

we don't need it anymore.

that whole Russian thing is sooooooooooooooo 1960s

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12/9/2007 9:18:45 PM

to say we don't need the space program anymore is pretty ignorant and short sighted


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12/9/2007 9:23:37 PM

Because he was obviously being dead serious.

12/9/2007 9:25:00 PM

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"we don't need it anymore."

i'm guessing he's serious about this

12/9/2007 9:26:19 PM

Yea, I mean, if you take that part out of the whole post, sure. You should get your sarcasm detector fixed.

12/9/2007 9:29:15 PM

It's just $16.8 billion per year

I mean come on, we'll get to go to the moon with that.

12/9/2007 9:32:05 PM

wait i thought that trolling in the soap box was supposed to have stopped?

12/9/2007 9:50:51 PM

Who is trolling?

12/9/2007 9:55:47 PM

y'all know you want to see this happen.



If we're not chillin up there mining He3 by 2035, I'm gona be mad.

12/9/2007 9:58:21 PM

I liked tancredo's response. "Hey guys... You just jacked off to fiscal responsibility and now you are jacking off to spending trillions on the space program. CHOOSE, YOU FUCKERS!"

12/9/2007 9:59:15 PM

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"Presidentials Candidates"

12/9/2007 10:06:15 PM

thanks for adding to the conversation

12/9/2007 10:07:04 PM

Ron Paul wants to eliminate it as a federal program. I can't say I agree with him, but it's also not even on his top 100 things to do in office, so it'll likely be left alone.

I doubt most of the candidates give two shits about NASA at all. I personally think it's one of the few federal programs not outlined in the constitution that we should seek amendments to keep alive. Exploration and fundamental scientific research deserve federal backing.

12/10/2007 5:55:53 AM

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"You should get your sarcasm detector fixed."

I noticed the sarcasm, but I'm gonna have to agree with jwb9984

in a text-only conversation, you really do need at least something to clearly indicate that sarcasm is being used

either caps lock or rolling eyes, you pick

(in this case, I would've gone with caps lock)

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"If we're not chillin up there mining He3 by 2035, I'm gona be mad"

I support a mass migration of humans to the moon, mars, or space

mostly because I hope it will be a boon to the organic movement and the complete elimination of terrestrial GMOs



oh and, the space program (at least the part that takes place within our atmosphere) needs to "go green"

12/10/2007 6:45:41 AM

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"Ron Paul wants to eliminate it as a federal program. I can't say I agree with him, but it's also not even on his top 100 things to do in office, so it'll likely be left alone."

I agree with Ron Paul. I think some money should be kept in order to maintain a strictly "research" program. However, currently the gov't policy toward space makes it prohibitively expensive for private firms to heavily invest.

Ron Paul 08'

12/10/2007 10:31:57 AM

I will not vote for a candidate who does not fully support the exploration of space, and the forward momentum of space exploration, NASA and private companies included.

12/10/2007 10:46:07 AM

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"I agree with Ron Paul. I think some money should be kept in order to maintain a strictly "research" program. However, currently the gov't policy toward space makes it prohibitively expensive for private firms to heavily invest."

God damn got that right!

People go on and on about how govt. should be investing into all sorts of research and industries (subsidizing), but forget a little fact: THEY'RE THE REASON NO ONE ELSE INVESTS. The government will completely kill an industry with regulations which will effectively wipe everyone out except for the giants with the power to keep up and army of lawyers and lobby the government for more favorable exclusionist policies. And then have the nerve to complain about the poor performance of the R&D framework they tailored to their own politics.

Space is like this, nuclear power in particular is like this. There are a handful of small companies that would build economical small reactors in the next few months if all they had to do was prove that it was safe. We would also be reusing the waste for a whole crapload of things if the government didn't legislate that industry has to pay them to fucking throw it away in Nevada.

But instead, it's automatically impossible for any such thing to happen because there's basically a fee you have to pay to the government to use that kind of technology. And it's a big ass fee.


diesel consumer cars, biodiesel cars, electric cars, cars that run of fucking pig shit would be everywhere by now if the government didn't exclude any small companies that want to do this from the market place and help out the automotive giants.

Emission regulations, safety standards, and all sorts of crap do nothing but create this mold of a "standard" car that is a certain shape, runs on a certain thing, and don't allow any others in.

okay...
/rant

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12/10/2007 6:53:11 PM

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"I know Hillary said she'd support it and Obama wants to delay it (Project Constellation)"

that would pretty much push me into the Hillary camp

i do not want space flight stalled

12/10/2007 10:27:32 PM

I refuse to vote for any politician who does not support the Seldon Plan.

12/10/2007 11:52:45 PM

ahahahha, i had to do a quick check

and the check revealed awesome

12/10/2007 11:53:47 PM

wait.

wasnt George Bush supposed to go to Mars or something?

12/11/2007 12:08:00 AM