The Running Tally » slashdot http://www.TheRunningTally.com My daily finds on technology, gadgets, and random crap! Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:35:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= NASA Flight To The Moon [Slashdot] http://www.TheRunningTally.com/2009/04/nasa-flight-to-the-moon-slashdot/ http://www.TheRunningTally.com/2009/04/nasa-flight-to-the-moon-slashdot/#comments Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:48:49 +0000 Zac http://www.phenotyne.com/blog/?p=157 ig262_nasa_spaceship_01_02.jpg

Slashdot has an excerpt from The Guardian revising their timeline for going to the moon.

“The Guardian is reporting that NASA is quietly revising its internal estimates of a 2018 launch for its Ares V rocket. Although publicly the date given for the launch was 2020, the internal launch date was set for 2018. The shift in dates seems to be linked to ‘growing budget woes,’ and ‘engineers say that means the public 2020 date to send humans back to the moon is in deepening trouble.’ NASA administrator Mike Griffin blamed the White House, and the previous Bush administration, saying funding for Ares V and other projects fell from $4bn through 2015 to just $500m. ‘This was to be allocated to early work on the Ares V heavy-lifter, and the Altair lunar lander. With only a half-billion dollars now available, this work cannot be done.’”

I think it is amazing how much this stuff costs when you have to figure out how to do something from scratch. And you will note this story is not called “returns to the moon.” Now that I think about it, why are we even going to the moon? If your going to go anywhere, at least make it Mars. It can at least support life, I saw a documentary all about it. You just melt the ice, and the best part, they have women with like three or four breasts!

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So I actually had this blog running on a server here at the house. Which works fine most of the time, but today I actually had an article published on Slashdot. Even though it didn’t kill my connection, I realized since I own a hosting company on the side that I should at least put my sites on there. So if you have some weird loading errors, you might flush your DNS cache, it should be normal in 24 hours otherwise.

My Slashdot post

My hosting company

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I mean really is this a surprise to anyone?  This is the agency that forgot to convert meters to feet and smashed the first Mars lander right into the planet.  I will say that there are some really smart 13 year olds out there too, on behalf of NASA, now they just need to hire them.  So here is an AFP aritcle brought to us by Giz and /. about a 13 y/o that shows NASA how to do math, and turns out the chances of us getting killed by an asteroid are pretty decent. 

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