NASA Embarks On Epic Delay

Yeah, it's the Onion, and it's humor, and almost entirely untrue. Almost.

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I misread it as "almost entirely true".

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Excellent article. I fear NASA is putting all their eggs in one basket though. What if they fail? I think they should set out to start a second prong on this effort, an international cooperation. This monumental journey should benefit from lessons learned in space agencies in different cultures, to maximize potentiality exploitation in the quest to achieve the ultimate late goal. Petition your senator!

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Heh.

BA Blog: NASA embarks on historic delay

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You know the Onion is satire because they print more space articles than any real paper would.

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Dude, NASA's been doing that with manned exploration since they popped Glenn into orbit.

What was the alternative to Mercury?

Gemini?

Apollo?

The STS?


Nothing new in this at all.

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wow.. it only took a week and a half for someone to post that article here. i was going to post it the first day it was out, but i figured i'd be tarred and feathered like every other time i post an Onion article..

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It would hardly be in the spirit of the article to post about it quickly and efficiently..

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'No, mad's when you froth at the mouf,' said Gaspode. 'He's insane. That's when you froth at the brain.'

Didnt you get the memo? You are the designated tar and featheree for any Onion article.

And how dare you post something like that here!1!!11!!!

They weren't tarrings, nor featherings, but the first two theonion.com links of yours I found when I looked, what if the universe is- like- one giant atom?, and the latest images from the Hubble.. seemed to draw some ire because they could be interpreted as intended to trick people into visiting the link for the surprise-humor effect.

I think some people don't like to be duped like that. I know I don't. I want at least enough sample material to be able to sense that it is humor. Even better is to have the fact that it is humor announced and the humor source called out by name. Then I'll visit, prepared, if I'm in the mood for that humor instead of hard news.

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Last I heard, the Universe is going to last for what, another 100 trillion years?

I'd say a delay of a few years so as to re-aquire the capability we had with Saturn is well worth the wait.

Naturally folks used to chain-smoking Delta II launches every other week have a hard time kicking the habit, so it seems like forever to them.