NASA Embarks On Epic Delay

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WASHINGTON—Top officials at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration unveiled plans this week for a comprehensive, multibillion-dollar delay—the agency's most ambitious postponement of cosmic exploration ever.
The unprecedented delay has reportedly brought together the nation's foremost aerospace engineers, whose combined efforts have already added 18 months of rescheduled meetings to the daring mission.
While he could not lock down any specifics regarding completion dates or construction deadlines, NASA associate administrator Christopher Scolese said this latest endeavor will be on a scale and time frame greater than anything the agency has attempted to put off before.
"Delays of this magnitude were once the stuff of science fiction," Scolese told reporters during a noon press conference Monday that actually started around 3:15 p.m. "But now, thanks to a number of long-overdue technological advances, this historic delay will stretch the very limits of what humankind can push back indefinitely."

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[ragarth]

This makes me very sad, space colonization is one of those things I think is absolutely critical to mankind's survival and evolution. That, AI, and a new energy source are probably the most important technologies we are working towards.

 

[AV1611VET]

This makes me very sad, space colonization is one of those things I think is absolutely critical to mankind's survival and evolution. That, AI, and a new energy source are probably the most important technologies we are working towards.

Before we go zipping off to someone else's planet, we'd better consider getting their permission to land first --- else:

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[Hespera]

You been watching too much Star Barf again there, Av! Get out more.

 

[Cabal]

We need some kind of fearless Kirk-like ambassador who's willing to bone any potential alien ladies in the name of peace.

I grudgingly nominate myself.

 

[ragarth]

We need some kind of fearless Kirk-like ambassador who's willing to bone any potential alien ladies in the name of peace.

I grudgingly nominate myself.

Well, even though it's likely they'll be similar to us chemically, there's no guarantee that they won't be horribly deadly or carcinogenic to us. You might stick it in the hot alien chick, then discover you have testicular cancer a year later. :-( Also, tentacles == hawt.

 

[FedererFan]

Um, this is from The Onion

 

[Hespera]

Once again, life imitates the onion

 

[pgp_protector]

Um, this is from The Onion

 

[Jester4kicks]

Um, this is from The Onion

I guess you and I were the only two to catch that!

In other news.... Science is FREAKING COOL!!!!

NASA Trumps Star Trek: Ion Drive Live!

 

[PsychMJC]

Well.. thanks for the amusing article. It's The Onion. Now what.

 

[Jester4kicks]

Well.. thanks for the amusing article. It's The Onion. Now what.

Oh lighten up!

 

[PsychMJC]

Oh lighten up!

Oh I didn't mean to come off tense lol, I am amused!

 

[Wiccan_Child]

I guess you and I were the only two to catch that!

In other news.... Science is FREAKING COOL!!!!

NASA Trumps Star Trek: Ion Drive Live!

"The Ion Drive instead operates electrically, carrying tanks of utterly inert Xenon gas - a "noble gas", so called because you could poke its mother in the face with matches and it won't catch fire."

Bwahahahaaa

 

[Jester4kicks]

"The Ion Drive instead operates electrically, carrying tanks of utterly inert Xenon gas - a "noble gas", so called because you could poke its mother in the face with matches and it won't catch fire."

Bwahahahaaa

Yeah, I LOL'd at that one too!

 

[Morcova]

I knew something was wrong with the title of this thread.... then I hovered over the link and realized why.
LOL

Gotta love the Onion.