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What has NASA done to make your life awesome?

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Re: What has NASA done to make your life awesome?

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Post by spitx »

onli wrote: post #3
acoyfellow wrote: post #2

For some reason, using the entire word "fuck" was shocking in a odd way for me. It's sending mixed signals- it's sounding harsh not funny. I personally think it could be stronger with a nice headline not using it- this idea is really awesome. There is something off in the relationship between the whole written word and the "ideals" of NASA. I love this, but I think it's a little over-the-top with the whole word being…

Don't be so fucking american. Swearwords are not not to be used. They serve its function, and here it is part of a well crafted site which is trying to make a point. edit: Though I agree with harrywincup that the wtf-approach at first seems like nasa did nothing good.

Perhaps we should try the same with ESA.

The first question that emanates would be on the order of "What's ESA?" No one in the world knows what it does.

Cheap shot making with pejorative intentions doesn't move forward the debate that we ,as a race,ought to do more in advancing our collective knowledge. Petty bickering doesn't help.

Re: What has NASA done to make your life awesome?

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Post by bao »

onli wrote: post #3
acoyfellow wrote: post #2

For some reason, using the entire word "fuck" was shocking in a odd way for me. It's sending mixed signals- it's sounding harsh not funny. I personally think it could be stronger with a nice headline not using it- this idea is really awesome. There is something off in the relationship between the whole written word and the "ideals" of NASA. I love this, but I think it's a little over-the-top with the whole word being…

Don't be so fucking american. Swearwords are not not to be used. They serve its function, and here it is part of a well crafted site which is trying to make a point. edit: Though I agree with harrywincup that the wtf-approach at first seems like nasa did nothing good.

A) Why did you think he is American? You can find cusswords distasteful and be from another country.

B) Why do you think he doesn't like the F-word? It's possible to respect a word for its emotional power while thinking it gratuitous or counter-productive in some cases.

Re: What has NASA done to make your life awesome?

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Post by spitx »

Someone pointed out the other day that an estimated $71 billion per year is lost in US tax revenue because of religious tax exemptions.

If religious organizations paid taxes like everyone else, NASA could send 28 rovers to Mars per year...EVERY YEAR. FOREVER. (Total Cost of current Curiosity mission : $2.5 billion, including $1.8 billlion for spacecraft development and science investigations and additional amounts for launch and operations. )

Perhaps we should be asking questions that have to do with why we place such little importance on advancing our knowledge and more on preserving arbitrary religious orders.

Re: What has NASA done to make your life awesome?

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Post by michaelbuddy »

onli wrote: post #3
acoyfellow wrote: post #2

For some reason, using the entire word "fuck" was shocking in a odd way for me. It's sending mixed signals- it's sounding harsh not funny. I personally think it could be stronger with a nice headline not using it- this idea is really awesome. There is something off in the relationship between the whole written word and the "ideals" of NASA. I love this, but I think it's a little over-the-top with the whole word being…

Don't be so fucking american. Swearwords are not not to be used. They serve its function, and here it is part of a well crafted site which is trying to make a point. edit: Though I agree with harrywincup that the wtf-approach at first seems like nasa did nothing good.

This site doesn't make a point via swearing. In fact all it does is further dilute the word which is useful when needed. The site's format has been done before and basically is an improved take on a Did You Know? concept. The facts, the ratings make it interesting. The fucks make it childish. Children misuse words and curse just to hear themselves curse. Adults communicate the right thing for the right reasons at the right time.

If everything is fucked then nothing is fucked. If everything is WTF then nothing is WTF.

Re: What has NASA done to make your life awesome?

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Post by MengYuanLong »

onli wrote: post #3
acoyfellow wrote: post #2

For some reason, using the entire word "fuck" was shocking in a odd way for me. It's sending mixed signals- it's sounding harsh not funny. I personally think it could be stronger with a nice headline not using it- this idea is really awesome. There is something off in the relationship between the whole written word and the "ideals" of NASA. I love this, but I think it's a little over-the-top with the whole word being…

Don't be so fucking american. Swearwords are not not to be used. They serve its function, and here it is part of a well crafted site which is trying to make a point. edit: Though I agree with harrywincup that the wtf-approach at first seems like nasa did nothing good.

NASA is American... So, who is the target audience then? Is the author intending to persuade western Europeans to fund NASA?

Swearing may be 'fun' but it still isn't what should be front facing for a business.

Re: What has NASA done to make your life awesome?

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Post by cryptoz »

Kilimanjaro wrote: post #14

I'd really like to know how much money has NASA administered since its inception. Just a ballpark figure, hundreds of trillions?

I think you're a few orders of magnitude off. ~$20 billion per year for ~50 years is closer to $1 trillion. Just a guess though.

Re: What has NASA done to make your life awesome?

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Post by icebraining »

spitx wrote: post #13

Someone pointed out the other day that an estimated $71 billion per year is lost in US tax revenue because of religious tax exemptions. If religious organizations paid taxes like everyone else, NASA could send 28 rovers to Mars per year...EVERY YEAR. FOREVER. (Total Cost of current Curiosity mission : $2.5 billion, including $1.8 billlion for spacecraft development and science investigations and additional amounts fo…

While I'm not a religious person, and you won't be seeing me give money to any church, it's not that simple. Firstly, the idea that you can calculate the loss in taxes by just applying the tax on paper is fundamentally incorrect, since the tax itself creates an incentive not to spend money that way.

Secondly, churches spend part of the money on social assistance, and so a reduction in their income may increase the funding needs for governmental assistance programs.

I'm not fundamentally opposed to cutting tax breaks for churches, but living in a country where recent tax increases have lead to a massive tax revenue reduction, I felt the need to point out that you probably couldn't fund 28 rovers with it.

Re: What has NASA done to make your life awesome?

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Post by icebraining »

Kilimanjaro wrote: post #14

I'd really like to know how much money has NASA administered since its inception. Just a ballpark figure, hundreds of trillions?

Not even close:

    According to the Office of Management and Budget and the Air Force Almanac,
    when measured in real terms (adjusted for inflation), the figure is $790.0 billion, or
    an average of $15.818 billion dollars per year over its fifty year history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA
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