http://www.atomictumor.com/2007/04/12/happy-cosmonautics-day/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:40:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 http://www.atomictumor.com/2007/04/12/happy-cosmonautics-day/#comment-29355 VA Bluebelle Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:03:08 +0000 http://www.atomictumor.com/2007/04/12/happy-cosmonautics-day/#comment-29355 I think once Pluto was demoted from planet-hood, it was all down-hill from there. I think once Pluto was demoted from planet-hood, it was all down-hill from there.

]]> http://www.atomictumor.com/2007/04/12/happy-cosmonautics-day/#comment-29356 Suzanne Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:11:51 +0000 http://www.atomictumor.com/2007/04/12/happy-cosmonautics-day/#comment-29356 At least those of us on the tail end of the baby boom enjoyed much better science educations than are/were typical. http://www.amazon.com/Scientists-Classroom-Reconstruction-American-Education/dp/0312295715 At least those of us on the tail end of the baby boom enjoyed much better science educations than are/were typical.
http://www.amazon.com/Scientists-Classroom-Reconstruction-American-Education/dp/0312295715

]]> http://www.atomictumor.com/2007/04/12/happy-cosmonautics-day/#comment-29365 timsan1 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:47:19 +0000 http://www.atomictumor.com/2007/04/12/happy-cosmonautics-day/#comment-29365 I don't know AT. I hate to put it in terms of economics but it isn't very profitable is it? While NASA argued in the late 1990's that real science was happening in space -- better concrete and the like -- it seems a technological gap that is preventing the space program from "going to the stars". The talk about pulse ion engines still but they have been around for a while. Carl Sagan once described the shuttle program "a tin can in orbit". But then you look at the Orion project and it really does look like a tin can after the shuttle retires. I think it helped to have a nice super power rivalry to rap up the space program. Now it is been there done that so lets do it again. No clear vision. I think we need a good educational revival. Lets face it -- our home grown talent is pretty poor and no one will talk about it. I am not saying that there is no talent -- I am just saying that the talent is there and we are failing to work it. I just feel that if you invest in education it is only a win win situation. It keeps your workforce globally competitive and it promotes a healthy sense of nationalism which says "our geeks are better than your geeks". I don’t know AT. I hate to put it in terms of economics but it isn’t very profitable is it? While NASA argued in the late 1990’s that real science was happening in space — better concrete and the like — it seems a technological gap that is preventing the space program from “going to the stars”. The talk about pulse ion engines still but they have been around for a while. Carl Sagan once described the shuttle program “a tin can in orbit”. But then you look at the Orion project and it really does look like a tin can after the shuttle retires. I think it helped to have a nice super power rivalry to rap up the space program. Now it is been there done that so lets do it again. No clear vision. I think we need a good educational revival. Lets face it — our home grown talent is pretty poor and no one will talk about it. I am not saying that there is no talent — I am just saying that the talent is there and we are failing to work it. I just feel that if you invest in education it is only a win win situation. It keeps your workforce globally competitive and it promotes a healthy sense of nationalism which says “our geeks are better than your geeks”.

]]> http://www.atomictumor.com/2007/04/12/happy-cosmonautics-day/#comment-29371 Jenn Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:31:49 +0000 http://www.atomictumor.com/2007/04/12/happy-cosmonautics-day/#comment-29371 Thank you for explaining that! I couldn't figure out why Google had a space theme today. Yes, I'm a moron. Thank you for explaining that! I couldn’t figure out why Google had a space theme today. Yes, I’m a moron.

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