Too funny man.  Speaking a misguided rockets, I hear Sean Penn is going to make another homo-e-rocket film about it.  Seems the only time Hollywood recognizes him, is when he plays a homo.  Tasty

That's why the dog was acting kinda funny earlier this morning.

Must have the 23.11 gear set in that baby HC. Nice, but kinda hurts the mileage eh?

I though that the Earth's recent rotational slowdown was caused by all those 500+ Horse Power Stretch Limos arriving and departing the Academy Awards, all in same the direction.

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"The satellite in question was equipped to measure carbon dioxide globally from space."

Why do we NEED a satellite to measure CO2 concentrations in our atmosphere?  There a plenty of cheaper, more reliable ways of measuring atmospheric CO2 concentrations.

For example:  We can use weather balloons (we still use them, you know) and measure the CO2 content of the atmosphere directly from several altitudes.  For the cost of a BUILDING single satellite, let alone launching that satellite, we could build and launch of thousands, and even tens of thousands, of weather balloons to measure the atmosphere directly, and those balloons would drift with the wind currents for days at a time.  That way they can directly measure the CO2 percentages i n real time as they circulate inside our atmosphere.  A satellite can't do that.

Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of valuable uses for a satellite, but I can't understand why we need a satellite to perform a function that could be done right here with a LOT less cost and, in my opinion, better direct data.

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Observing CO2 is one thing. Accepting as fact, without sufficient evidence, that CO2 is the cause of global warming is another thing. That's what NASA has done. So, instead of building good launch systems, their "scientists" are more concerned with keeping this hoax alive. Perhaps all the good scientists have been let go, because they didn't pass the CO2-belief test, and all that are left are fools and morons? Don't know -- but, unfortunately in this day and age, the possibility exists.

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I just heard the first story on the radio. All they said was the satellite fell into the ocean and was lost. No mention of cost. 273 billion dollars could have been better spent. Didn't we here that all during the Bush presidency about what the cost of the war was?

I see your point about the people having worked hard and this being a sad day for them.

However, I get tired of constantly having Global Warming mentioned for everything.  Polar bear pictures appeared to be taken out of context to tell us how important Global Warming, but nobody really seemed to look into who took the pictures or what the exact circumstances were.

http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2007/02/the_polar_bear_.html

There is a great Youtube clip from I think Australia where they talk about how Gore used these polar bear pictures, and then the person who actually took the pictures said there was no catastrophe going on when they took the picture.  I'll try to find it tonight when I'm home.

And then of course all of the implciations that if you don't worship Gore for his views, then you are the equivalent of a Holocaust denier. 

So yes we should be sensitive to those who worked on this project and are downtrodden today, but at the same time, I'm all for pointing out instances where pictures and charts are twisted around to make thing seem like they really aren't.

I don't think anyone is debating the fact that it was sad for it to crash and loose all that time and money. The fact is that everyone is tired of hearing chicken little gore yelling about the sky is falling and all the other scientists on the payroll that sit there and nod their heads like a bobble head doll. My brother used to be one of the main people that worked on the shuttle engines down in the Los Alamos missle base. I even have a picture of myself with one of them tore apart (pretty cool stuff down there). He is with most of the people that say that this is all a bunch of hooey about GW.

I think people are more talking about the irony of the whole thing. Yes things go wrong with rockets but you have to admit that with the growing concensus that it is all a bunch of crap that a probe that would accurately measure this whole thing and could disprove once and for all this alarmist propoganda doesn't even make it in to orbit. 

good call it does sound like more of the later

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Sounds like it was cheaper for everyone, that it crashed. So much for research.

Did the chi coms shoot it down? 

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"NASA explain the sattelite was effective and accurate only across large areas like teh state of Colorado."

Now NASA has me confused.  How can NASA hope to identify carbon sources and sinks with such LOUSY resolution?  You may as well try to identify a single mountain on Earth by looking at a 110 millimeter (110's remember those?) hand held Kodak camera picture that was taken from the moon.

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