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04-23-2010, 11:47 AM #1
Brit boffin baffles NASA with $785 pics from space
[QUOTE]A British hobbyist could teach NASA a thing or two about taking photos from space - and NASA is apparently willing to listen.
Robert Harrison rigged a Cannon camera to a helium balloon to take photos from the edge of space - images that NASA admits would have cost the space agency tens of millions of dollars to capture.
The whole project cost Harrison about $765.
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04-23-2010 11:47 AM # ADS
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04-26-2010, 05:29 PM #2
Seems to me the private sector could teach government a lot about cost savings.....
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04-26-2010, 05:49 PM #3
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04-26-2010, 06:07 PM #4
Honestly, I am not sure. I don't know where private sector funding comes from in this arena. Part of me wonders if this was a good move since so much good science seems to come from NASA. Part of me also wonders about the national security issues of space. I belive that we need to stay ahead of the world with science and technology for amongst other reasons, national security that is why I tend to lean towards the skeptical side of Obama cutting the funding.
BTW, my comment was not leaning towards cutting NASA funding or that NASA was bad. I was only commenting that sometimes all that brain power thinks too hard and complicates things. Also, when you are not spending your own money, what the heck - spend away! The private sector has to spend their OWN money and therefore, tends to solve many problems more efficently and cheaper.
The bigger issue to me is--science for science sake. Most private organizations won't fund that kind of philosophy. Most private organizations must see a return on the dollar. I don't have any examples but I would imagine that NASA has done the science on a government dollar then someone has found a commercial use after.
So, in short, I still don't know how I feel about the cut to NASA. I don't know enough really to make a good decision.
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04-26-2010, 06:22 PM #5
well how I read it the taxi service of the shuttle would be contracted out in a few years. argument was to build the private sector space industry and get private sector savings. Human exploration of Mars, astroids, etc would be NASA.
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04-26-2010, 08:15 PM #6
Private Sector = Winner
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