Insipid Twats at NASA ''erase'' '69 moon landing tapes.

[Riddler]

fucking geniuses.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-07-16-moon-footage_N.htm?csp=24&RM_Exclude=Juno

[BobRobertson]

fucking geniuses.

What, you expected this particular government bureaucracy to be run better than the post office or the DMV?

[Riddler]

fucking geniuses.

What, you expected this particular government bureaucracy to be run better than the post office or the DMV?

at least the post office is ''somewhat'' self-sufficient....they sell a service
the dmv...ehhh, kinda the same...but worse.
NASA??
these niggas squander money sending space shuttles up, with the frequency people go to the corner store for a gallon of milk...to study the mating habits of houseflies in zero gravity....
the science & physics involved in deign/build/activate,  is mind-boggling....but there isn't a single motherfucker there, back in '69-70, saying..."gee, that was a major fucking milestone...maybe we should make a few copies...just in case.."
no, they erase the fucking tapes, to save $6....

[BonerJoe]

Wait, so you people are complaining about the goverment reusing stuff instead of spending your tax money buying more of it? Heh.

[Riddler]

Wait, so you people are complaining about the goverment reusing stuff instead of spending your tax money buying more of it? Heh.

we're talking about $10 worth of fucking tapes, fool.
they could have sold footage or stills to any number of organizations & made money, if i were running the place

[BonerJoe]

Wait, so you people are complaining about the goverment reusing stuff instead of spending your tax money buying more of it? Heh.

we're talking about $10 worth of fucking tapes, fool.
they could have sold footage or stills to any number of organizations & made money, if i were running the place

They were using 1" width instrumentation tapes back then that ran at 120 inches per second. So for each 15 minutes, or 9200 feet of tape, it probably cost the government $300 each in 1969 money.

[Riddler]

They were using 1" width instrumentation tapes back then that ran at 120 inches per second. So for each 15 minutes, or 9200 feet of tape, it probably cost the government $300 each in 1969 money.

$10 in todays money
who fucking cares?
i'm more concerned w/ the every-other-week shuttle missions.....to see how chocolate milk reacts in zero gravity, or some such bullshit
nasa's budget should be chopped in 1/2

[BonerJoe]

nasa's budget should be chopped in 1/2

Why not get rid of it entirely then?

[Libertarianssuck]

nasa's budget should be chopped in 1/2

Why not get rid of it entirely then?

apparently he likes nasa enough to fund it with your money just not as much

[Riddler]

Why not get rid of it entirely then?

i don't doubt the space program has certain merit as far as advancements in technology, science, space-related gobbledegook.
as capt. kirk so aptly put it:
"space: the final frontier"
but, nigga,please...do we need to send the fucking shuttle up every goddamned three months?
i was esp. irked, when, after the foam/tile disaster(s), the cunts spent, like, 12 billion, researching the insulating foam problem, and the next time the cocksucking shuttle went up?   breakaway foam damaged the 'tiles'

[BonerJoe]

I think you're just pissed because you'll never get to be an astronaut.

[libertylover]

fucking geniuses.

What, you expected this particular government bureaucracy to be run better than the post office or the DMV?

But but they invented Tang, tang man the world wouldn't have tang, if we didn't spend billions of dollars on space exploration.   Opps no wait Tang was invented in the 1930s.   

They might be worth the satellite shuttling and repairing thou. 

[Riddler]

I think you're just pissed because you'll never get to be an astronaut.

how do you know i'm not?

[BonerJoe]

I think you're just pissed because you'll never get to be an astronaut.

how do you know i'm not?

You didn't pass my IQ test.

[Riddler]

You didn't pass my IQ test.

that's because i'm a fucking genius