Now that Discovery has Landed

[Jerrel]

And is then eaten by such life because, "Hey, Earth submarines make tastie treats!"

I would welcome that!!!

how awesome would it be to see some big ass creature swallow a submarine on a live feed from another planet????

LOL may feeling after seeing something like that would be beyond description.

[Sai'nu]

Why is the program important? It compells us to reach for more than our standard existance here on Earth. What kind of price tag can we put on furthering our knowledge of the Universe? None... but, realistically, we'd see more progress in this area if we'd concentrate on developing new power sources to save Earth before we start thinking colozining even the Moon really.

As a species, we also need to develop our governments and global awareness of living together before we can even think of seeing this become a successful mission for the human race...

It is an adventure I hope we never give up on though... it's a key to a species being able to survive 'past' it's solar system's life... highly unlikely it'll happen... but it doesn't mean it can't.

[Skorixor]

From what I can recall on the cost of one shuttle launch, it costs about 1 billion to lauch the shuttle. I dont recall how much it cost those to get that privatly built spce craft into space but I'm pretty sure it was less than a billion. And X'an before you rant about me being off on the cost of a shuttle launch remember I did say that I heard, meaning I dont know this for fact, that it cost a billion.

if you're trying to prove a point, don't use "i heard that's" or "i think that's"

use actual facts and figures, use google, it's a wonderful thing

Q. How much does it cost to launch a Space Shuttle?
A. The average cost to launch a Space Shuttle is about $450 million per mission.
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/abo ... e_faq.html

[Jerrel]

From what I can recall on the cost of one shuttle launch, it costs about 1 billion to lauch the shuttle. I dont recall how much it cost those to get that privatly built spce craft into space but I'm pretty sure it was less than a billion. And X'an before you rant about me being off on the cost of a shuttle launch remember I did say that I heard, meaning I dont know this for fact, that it cost a billion.

if you're trying to prove a point, don't use "i heard that's" or "i think that's"

use actual facts and figures, use google, it's a wonderful thing

Q. How much does it cost to launch a Space Shuttle?
A. The average cost to launch a Space Shuttle is about $450 million per mission.
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/abo ... e_faq.html

Thx Skor

I have a habbit, probably a bad one, of not putting alot of effort in discussions that have no more meaning than simple discussion.

[X'an Shin]

While $2000 may be excessive for a coffee pot can you imagine what would happen should said C-130 roll over during flight causing the hot coffee to spill out all over the crew. We all know what hot coffee did to some 90 year olds crotch at McDonald's. Now imagine that happening to the faces of a crew carrying 60 soldiers, and civilian contractors =), in the back of this C-130.

Yeah, that's what I was getting at; that there aren't any COTS coffee makers that could probably even withstand the landing Gs of a C-130 performing an emergency landing or maneuvers without getting thrown all over the place and shattering.