Space Politics
Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway…
December 17, 2009 at 6:46 am
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Most of the arguments for NASA’s Constellation program, specifically Ares 1 and Orion, have fallen along familiar lines: safety, performance, jobs, national prestige, and the like. Planetary defense and climate control? Not so much. But that’s exactly what NBC’s Jay Barbree suggested in a brief report yesterday about the meeting between Obama and Bolden:
If the two executives decide to stay NASA’s current course, the agency will have rockets and spaceships capable of stopping a future asteroid threat to millions, flying to and beyond the moon and, partnered with Russia and China, place in low orbit solar flux reflectors for climate control.
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Jay is to old to wear a cheerleader outfit, but he does it well anyway.
Robert G. Oler
Isn’t it just cheaper to buy a tinfoil hat?
I’m not quite sure it’s 100% tin-foil hat material, but neither justification should be thought of as a centerpiece. At least not if anyone wants to take them seriously.
The Constellation program is developing asteroid deflecting spaceships? Jay Barbree must have some very creative writers.
Loki wrote @ December 17th, 2009 at 10:22 am
“solar flux reflectors for climate control.”
Here I thought we were supposed to be all about “green” solar energy. Now we’re talking about reflecting that energy back into space instead? Seems awfully wasteful. If we could launch those big solar reflectors it seems logical to conclude we could launch large solar power satellites, and actually use that solar energy instead of wasting it. Oh well.
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