Like the climate instability stuff I heard a few years ago with Super Storm Sandy? Remember who the storms were supposed to get worse each year? The last two hurricance seasons have been a dud at least in east.

Look how successful it was with Christie

The mission was designed to map methane on Mars, but MSL has found none so the results could be disappointing, but just getting to Mars orbit will be a big achievement. There are no sacred cows on Mars and no methane, alas.

You underestimate how stubborn Bill Belichick is. I suspect he will have someone printout the pictures and give them to him on a clipboard...

I saw him struggling with it...I suspect he will go back to a clipboard and paper soon and to heck with the NFL and the MS contract...

There is no purpose to manned spaceflight. The scientific return comes from unmanned spaceflight. Manned spaceflights are stunts to keep the pork flowing to Congressionally powerful districts. There is nothing done by manned spaceflight that could not be done unmanned for one tenth or one hundredth the cost as an unmanned mission. The problem is that NASA is run by ex-flyboys and astronauts. There is an internal battle between the manned spaceflight directorate and the science directorate (NASA/JPL). The former do maned pork and are always trying to steal funds away from the science guys. The manned fighter-jocks tried to kill planetary science many times, the last time was earlier this year. At one point they allocated more for a Space Toilet (30 mil) than they did for a Europa mission (15 mi). NASA needs a shakeup and the science guys need equal control at the top.

And where does the electricity come from? Coal-fired power plants probably

My experience with Home Depot has been extremely low quality products. Your experience my differ, but I stopped shopping there long ago and now only shop at local, family-owned shops.

This seems like the manned spaceflight directorate (i.e the pork Directorate) whining about the science directorate (i.e. real science and exploration) because the planetary science guys are getting all the publicity and excitement while they cannot get anyone interested in their pork manned projects like the ISS, SLS, Orion, or their ludicrous asteroid capture missions.

Mad as a hatter

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Who never goes over 65 on the highway? So all you offenders will get rate hikes....i.e. everyone

The real excitement and discoveries are all the result of unmanned missions such as the Voyager, Cassini, New Horizons, MRO, etc. missions (and the fabulously successful rovers). Manned spaceflight is just pork for Congressionally-powerful districts with no scientific return. The SLS (called the Rocket to Nowhere), the Orion capsule, the old shuttles, and the ISS are/have burned billions and do nothing for science....and they endanger astronauts. The problem is that NASA is run by ex-flyboys and the districts that build their toys want the pork to keep coming. Bolden is a shill for the manned space lobby--it is fairly disgraceful how he has tried to kill planetary science.

Even more motivation to defund SLS...

How about a stiff import tariff / carbon tax on all the junk imported from China?????