NASA spends 1.5 Billion to check if the Sun is hot ...

[dogtag]

It's 90 million miles away and the temperature around
here lately has hovered around the 80s. So yes, it's hot,
and I'd guess it's a lot hotter where it is than where I am.
I've read some about this program but so far I haven't
figured out exactly what NASA is hoping to find, except
maybe to see how close the probe can get before it melts.
What good is that ? When interplanetary flight is perfected,
I don't think astronauts will be landing on the Sun.
Should have spent that 1.5 Bil on going to Mars - now that
place you can land on.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...ssion-SUN.html

[togor]

The US unmanned space program has an excellent track record. Sure, over the years there were some blunders such as the Galileo HG antenna or the Mars Observer insertion burn, but overall those guys have done outstanding work and I look forward to to reading about what they learn.

[Major Tom]

Just don't fly too close to the sun or your feathered wings will burn off. Wasn't that what some Greek god did? As for Mars, I don't give a rat's a$$ whats there! But I would like to see a real alien from another planet! 8-)

[dogtag]

Just don't fly too close to the sun or your feathered wings will burn off. Wasn't that what some Greek god did? As for Mars, I don't give a rat's a$$ whats there! But I would like to see a real alien from another planet! 8-)

Yes, that was Icarus out on a flying cruise with his father Daedelus.
Hopefully though, NASA's spacecraft is held together with something
more durable than wax.

[Marty T.]

They could've paid me just five million and I could've told them it was hot. Think of all the wasted money.

[dogtag]

Sounds like somebody stole Red's hubcaps.

[JB White]

Billions of dollars wasn't spent and gone. It was circulated and kept in demand.

[Sandpebble]

Marty, so you believe you are a genius while the rocket scientists are idiots? I don't know if this venture is worth the money or not, but neither do you. You would have sh-tcanned Columbus back in 1492, grounded Sputnik in the 1950's , and ended any attempt to set a foot on the moon.

Bottom line is we would still be listening to transistor radios, playing 45 RPM records and watching black and white TV if we had listened to folks like you.

Funny.... I'd bet dollars to donuts that if this happened 4 years ago you'd be here howling about Obamas wastefull spending ...... just sayin

[k arga]

That's a good bet when the project started.

[JOHN COOK]

Don't care about the shot to the Sun. Think about this. The United States at this moment has no way of connecting a manned space craft to the International Space Station from its soil. We shut down the most successful means of doing this when the Space Shuttle program was scrubbed. We now have to catch a ride from Russia. But alas, we are going to initiate a SPACE FORCE. What if Russia says,"no more rides"? Put more sanctions are lift a few ? Something doesn't quite connect here. Maybe someone with a little more common sense can explain it to me.

john

[togor]

In a word, cash. It costs us less to send astronauts up via Kazakhstan than it does with the shuttles, and Ivan uses the money to keep that program afloat. One of the few areas where both sides still manage to play it straight.