Posted: 10/20/2012 12:09:07 PM EDT
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Funny, but factually very incorrect. I started to argue this point with someone the other day, but I realized he was a giant douche and wasn't worth the time. First off, we have to understand the point of the post is to make a joke. Secondly, when people think of "space programs" they think of the manned launches, not the unmanned stuff. Technically, the US has no operational manned capability to get into space by ourselves. We could probably do it in a short ass time if we had an Armageddon Day type situation, but the STS is retired, and its replacement isn't supposed to be online and operational for another 8 years. We have to rely on the Soviets to get our astronauts into space if we ever want to go up. The best we could do on our own without making something is to go on a balloon, because it goes higher than any of our air breathing aircraft. Felix Bumgartner has the record for that. So, for the purposes of making a joke, it is true. Which makes it both funny, and saddening. We don't have to get technical for no reason, unless we all are suddenly struck with a case of Asperger's Syndrome. |
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I'm curious to know how much of the support behind the jump was provided by NASA.
I'm guessing that many millions of dollars went into this. Have to say that it was one of the more thrilling things I've ever seen on live TV. Actually made me feel proud to be a (former) extreme sports guy to see someone takes things to a whole different level. Hell, I even bought a can of Red Bull on the way to work on Monday 
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I'm curious to know how much of the support behind the jump was provided by NASA. I'm guessing that many millions of dollars went into this. Have to say that it was one of the more thrilling things I've ever seen on live TV. Actually made me feel proud to be a (former) extreme sports guy to see someone takes things to a whole different level. Hell, I even bought a can of Red Bull on the way to work on Monday Four pack to watch it. 
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Funny, but factually very incorrect. I started to argue this point with someone the other day, but I realized he was a giant douche and wasn't worth the time. First off, we have to understand the point of the post is to make a joke. Secondly, when people think of "space programs" they think of the manned launches, not the unmanned stuff. Technically, the US has no operational manned capability to get into space by ourselves. We could probably do it in a short ass time if we had an Armageddon Day type situation, but the STS is retired, and its replacement isn't supposed to be online and operational for another 8 years. We have to rely on the Soviets to get our astronauts into space if we ever want to go up. The best we could do on our own without making something is to go on a balloon, because it goes higher than any of our air breathing aircraft. Felix Bumgartner has the record for that. So, for the purposes of making a joke, it is true. Which makes it both funny, and saddening. We don't have to get technical for no reason, unless we all are suddenly struck with a case of Asperger's Syndrome. Good points, the main one being that the picture was supposed to be a joke, which on its face it succeeds at, albiet at the great expense of being wrong as such short quips usually are. Notwithstanding, your points aren't related to the picture in that the jump was not from space, and not part of a space program. |