Comment Advantages for US (Score -1) 145
Iâ(TM)m all for it if it keeps them employed and away from our borders.
Comment All for it if it keeps them employed and away from (Score -1) 145
^ This
Comment Re:Parse "Vehicle Locations" Carefully! (Score 0) 62
So you condone a further invasion of privacy because it exists today?
Comment As someone who lives near Crystal City.. (Score 0) 107
...are there conceptual drawings of the traffic?
Comment Re: Authorative news are not... (Score -1) 143
Agreed. Case in point when the previous poster cited problems with CNN and NYT coverage, the other poster wanted Fox News to also be thrown in with the bunch. It could not just be an attack against left of center publications. Oh no.
Comment No surprise (Score -1) 59
The Creator of one created the other.
Comment Re: (applause) (Score -1) 72
Bravo. Couldnâ(TM)t agree more. He is the thomas Edison/Isaac Newton of our time.
Comment Private sector (Score -1) 143
Wouldn't be surprised if the private sector beats NASA to AP
Comment European hi-tech projects - track record (Score -1) 194
Too bad the Superconducting Super Collider was cancelled here in the States. I highly doubt we would have had so many issues and delays. The "trains would have run on time"
Whenever I hear of exciting projects like these that are European led or international collaboration (U.S./E.U.) I become deeply concerned of debilitating cost overruns or technical failures. Happens almost everytime.
Mars Beagle, Cassini Huygens, LHC - to name a few examples.
Proposed NASA Mission Would Sail the Seas of Titan 197
The BBC has a report on a proposal that will be submitted to NASA for funding — a mission to Saturn's moon Titan that would deposit a lander on its hydrocarbon sea. (We recently discussed the widely-circulated photo of sunlight glinting off one of Titan's seas.) "The scientific team behind the idea is targeting Ligeia Mare, a vast body of liquid methane sited in the high north of Saturn's largest moon. ... 'It is something that would really capture the imagination,' said Dr Ellen Stofan, from Proxemy Research, who leads the study team. 'The story of human exploration on Earth has been one of navigation and seafaring, and the idea that we could explore for the first time an extraterrestrial sea I think would be mind-blowing for most people,' she told BBC News. ... The Titan Mare Explorer (TiME) has already been under study for about two years. It is envisaged as a relatively low-cost endeavor — in the low $400m range. It could launch in January 2016, and make some flybys of Earth and Jupiter to pick up the gravitational energy it would need to head straight at the Saturnian moon for a splash down in June 2023."
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