What are we waiting for?

I just read Phil Plait’s post over at Bad Astronomy about the Ares-1. He included this cool picture of it:

Ares-1 courtesy of Bad Astronomy

I checked up on the latest news and found out the static test of its primary engine has been rescheduled for Thurs Sept 10th.

As I’ve reported on this blog before NASA is at the state where it has to “Go Big, or Stay Home”. In order to make the Ares-1 fly on time and have the Ares-5 able to take us back to the Moon in the 20s NASA needs an additional $3 billion per year.

We have known since 1985 that the Space Shuttle was a dud, it couldn’t maintain the schedule necessary to reduce costs without becoming too risky. For 25 years we continued to pour money into that program draining the money that could be used for researching the next spacecraft.

The biggest thing we learned from the Space Shuttle Program was that the worst space program still gives us good returns on investment as the technology is passed out to the private sector.

If instead of cutting NASA’s budget every year, we had increased it; NASA could have been working on Space Shuttle alternatives for 25 years.

The aircraft industry has known since the 80’s that they would need to replace aluminum with carbon fiber for the skins of their aircraft, but that would require open testing of how it reacted to repeated pressurization and de-pressurization.

If NASA had been given the money to look into a Space Shuttle alternative in ’85 they would have needed to explore this field and the research would have paid for itself as American Aircraft would still be dominate in the world.

The new generation of spacecraft both public and private would be greatly helped by this as Burt Rutan’s Spaceship One’s biggest limitation is its Carbon Fiber skin.

SpaceShip One

SpaceX’s Falcon rocket series could have used this data as well, increasing its capabilities immensely.

Falcon 1

If NASA had been given this small increase, less than twice what the Federal government gives to Wal-Mart to help them eliminate competition and grants for Abstinence Only Education (a program proven not to work) we could already have commercial access to space as the research flowed down and NASA could concentrate on getting us to the Moon.

So what are we waiting for, lets build the damn Ares-1 rocket, then the Ares-5 and get back into space on a permanent basis, so we can advance as a civilization, instead of pouring money into Monopolies and programs proven not to work.

The Cat’s are watching us

In my investigation of the Catspiracy, I have found that the Cats are watching us from 3,300 Million light-years away, with the Cat’s Eye Nebula.

We’re watching you.

Astronomers say it is just a coincidence that the nebula looks like the eye of a Cat and that’s how it got its name, but I’d bet my tin-foil hat that the Catspiracy is really using it to spy on us.

The Catspiracy is corrupting our youth

Tigger’s evil plan to rule the world starts by corrupting our youth.

TV aimed at kids is designed to lure them into the Catspiracy.

The biggest offenders are:

1) Josie and the Pussycats

Which taught young girls that if you dress-up in skintight leopard outfits you can defeat the plans of any mad scientist. BTW: That actually does work, when I was hatching my scheme to destroy the world, my wife walked in wearing a skintight catsuit and I immediately forgot about my scheme.

2) Pepe LaPew’s friend with benefits: Penelope Pussycat

In the cartoon Penelope applies make-up (a white stripe down her back) to completely enamor poor Pepe, making him do things like wear perfume.

This teaches young girls that if they wear make-up and attractive clothes, men will do things (like shave and bathe and stuff) in order to be with them.

This is all part of the catspiracy, when combined with their plan to make women healthier, to make women dress in Cat Outfits and make-up and so men will not be able to say “No” to any evil demand they make.

A shocking result of this evil plan is seen below: