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Non Life Sciences => Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology => Topic started by: SpaceShouldBeMilitarized on 07/11/2010 23:19:09

Title: Is the New Horizons space mission good value for money?
Post by: SpaceShouldBeMilitarized on 07/11/2010 23:19:09
New Horizons, which is the NASA robotic spacecraft mission currently en route to Pluto, is a costly mission.  Does anyone believe it is worth the turkey (money)? 
Title: Re: Is the New Horizons space mission good value for money?
Post by: Bored chemist on 08/11/2010 07:17:59
Yes.
Clearly someone did. With luck, since it was launched by a democratic country, most of the  people paying for it do.
Also, without the same human  trait for exploration of which this is part, Columbus wouldnt have found America.
Title: Is the New Horizons space mission good value for money?
Post by: imatfaal on 08/11/2010 10:31:17
Yes. And missions of discovery and scientific enquiry a better use of money than the militarisation of space!
Title: Is the New Horizons space mission good value for money?
Post by: peppercorn on 08/11/2010 10:51:49
Yes. And missions of discovery and scientific enquiry a better use of money than the militarisation of space!

You say that, but who's going to protect us from the Commie-Nazi-Aliens!!!  [:D] [:D]
Title: Is the New Horizons space mission good value for money?
Post by: imatfaal on 08/11/2010 11:15:58
Yes. And missions of discovery and scientific enquiry a better use of money than the militarisation of space!

You say that, but who's going to protect us from the Commie-Nazi-Aliens!!!  [:D] [:D]

No One !  Bwa Ha Ha Ha Ha

Dispatch War rocket Ajax to bring back his body
Title: Is the New Horizons space mission good value for money?
Post by: peppercorn on 08/11/2010 12:04:27
No One !  Bwa Ha Ha Ha Ha

Dispatch War rocket Ajax to bring back his body

*grin* - Camp it up, Flash Gordon style!!! [:D]

"Flash, Flash, I love you, but we only have fourteen hours to save the Earth!"
Title: Is the New Horizons space mission good value for money?
Post by: imatfaal on 08/11/2010 14:49:55
 [;D] I love it when silly references are spotted.  Thnx
Title: Is the New Horizons space mission good value for money?
Post by: peppercorn on 08/11/2010 15:32:20
[;D] I love it when silly references are spotted.  Thnx

I know!!! It surprisingly rewarding, isn't!  [;D]

Some people want to fill the world with silly [references],
And what's wrong with that, I'd like to know...
Title: Is the New Horizons space mission good value for money?
Post by: imatfaal on 08/11/2010 15:36:49
I'd like to know, cause here I go again...
Title: Is the New Horizons space mission good value for money?
Post by: peppercorn on 08/11/2010 15:52:44
I'd like to know, cause here I go again...
lol!
Oh dear - we really must get lives!!! [;D]

I ought to shrink my own posts for wasting everybody's time! ;)


Back to the OP, I do think a probe to Pluto is a better use of money than the latest Martian desires of the US to start a colony there!
Title: Is the New Horizons space mission good value for money?
Post by: SpaceShouldBeMilitarized on 09/11/2010 03:40:01
peppercorn, starting a colony on Mars is OK, I mean we're not bumping off it's native population like the British Empire did sometimes. 
Title: Is the New Horizons space mission good value for money?
Post by: peppercorn on 09/11/2010 10:15:58
peppercorn, starting a colony on Mars is OK, I mean we're not bumping off it's native population like the British Empire did sometimes.

Ah! But can we be sure? What about the remnants of Martian bacteria that NASA supposedly found in the early '90s?  Perhaps it was an X-files type cover-up (that [show] was popular at the time too [;D])
Still, since the OP was on economic grounds I doubt it matters.  Still someone could suggest to the Republican's that there's oil on Mars - that'd get political motivation for a mission; risk-to-indigenous-pop. or no! [;)]
Title: Is the New Horizons space mission good value for money?
Post by: simplified on 09/11/2010 17:34:31
New Horizons, which is the NASA robotic spacecraft mission currently en route to Pluto, is a costly mission.  Does anyone believe it is worth the turkey (money)? 
People can use just an impulse of photons for acceleration of spacecrafts.In first place people should learn to use all energy of photons for acceleration of spacecrafts, I think.
Title: Is the New Horizons space mission good value for money?
Post by: syhprum on 09/11/2010 19:43:09
I think it very old hat to believe that the greatest danger we face is from Commie-Nazi-Aliens we all know it is from Al-Quaida
Title: Is the New Horizons space mission good value for money?
Post by: Pikaia on 11/11/2010 18:22:18
The cost is $650 million, spread over 15 years, or about $2 per person in the US. I would be willing to pay $2 to see photos of Pluto and its moons, and to learn more about them.
Title: Is the New Horizons space mission good value for money?
Post by: simplified on 13/11/2010 14:21:54
The cost is $650 million, spread over 15 years, or about $2 per person in the US. I would be willing to pay $2 to see photos of Pluto and its moons, and to learn more about them.
You'll see just  deciphered nonsense.