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The Shuttle has been an amazing technical achievement, but it turned out to be far too expensive. It was a development vehicle that was declared operational.
Promised in the 70's to fly 500 times at $3M per flight (for a total ops cost of $1.5B), the Shuttle actually cost $1.6B *per flight*. Missing a cost target by a factor of 500x is not good. ('Mom, can I have $20,000 for a tank of gas?' :-)

The Shuttle is like a 1970's mainframe computer, and it is time to be retired. Sadly, Congress this week is trying to cut the $850M investment in the four commercial vehicles that companies are developing to replace the Shuttle. Invest half the cost of one Shuttle mission and you get four new vehicle designs!
http://spacefrontier.org/2011/07/08/fundthefuture/

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>> ^lavoll:

the man uses 90 minutes to clean his car. the film is 3m 39 seconds and has been seen 1,063,254 times.
the man spends 1 hour too much on his car, and the world has spent 7 years and 138 days watching him work


A profound statement in regards to the human condition.

the man uses 90 minutes to clean his car. the film is 3m 39 seconds and has been seen 1,063,254 times.

the man spends 1 hour too much on his car, and the world has spent 7 years and 138 days watching him work

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You're right. Back to the race card now.

>> ^rychan:
>> ^doogle:
Wow those kids are white.
I mean it. They're all white.
At least they have something close to gender parity - but still. Not one black or Asian. I think maybe I saw someone who maybe looked Indian though (on the left @ 3m:24s).

That's what you think gender parity looks like? What are you, a CS major? There's at least twice as many guys.

>> ^doogle:
Wow those kids are white.
I mean it. They're all white.
At least they have something close to gender parity - but still. Not one black or Asian. I think maybe I saw someone who maybe looked Indian though (on the left @ 3m:24s).


That's what you think gender parity looks like? What are you, a CS major? There's at least twice as many guys.

Wow those kids are white.

I mean it. They're all white.

At least they have something close to gender parity - but still. Not one black or Asian. I think maybe I saw someone who maybe looked Indian though (on the left @ 3m:24s).

^it climbs like something you could strap explosives to and finagle it up a ship's hull...the other one leaves a hot glue trail after it spies or places explosives, and the third, thanks to 3M who has given the military all kinds of other wonderful products for the destruction of humans not in the know, can do all of the above and fuck your mother and sister without leaving any STD's.

3M is coming up with some pretty sweet keyboards and displays.