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Speak for yourself. This is exciting. We have a plan. What we need is enthusiasm and funding.
by rquantz 12y ago
Speak for yourself. This is exciting. We have a plan. What we need is enthusiasm and funding.
- melling 12y agoI'm the guy who cut pictures of the Viking missions out of the paper when he was 10. I've seen lots of enthusiasm. The Shuttle, Skylab, Hubble, the Space Station, the Rovers on Mars, etc. You are in an echo chamber of enthusiasm on HN. It doesn't translate to the rest of the America. We aren't going to magically triple NASA's budget because of enthusiasm. We canceled a larger supercollider more than CERN 20 years ago because it was a few billion over budget. We said Hubble or SSC, not both. It certainly would have been nice to learn 20 years ago what we are learning today.