Re: NASA gets SGI 2048-core Itanium 2 supercomputer

In article <fipbbs$sa9$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
david20@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
In article <5ragurF139h2rU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, billg999@xxxxxxxxxxx (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
In article <2e0f3$474fc65d$cef8887a$6850@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Dr. Dweeb wrote:
Can someone give me one, clear, unequivocal reason why manned space flight
out of earth's orbit in any way justifies its cost relative to unmanned
missions (which are massively less expensive) to other solar system bodies?


When Christopher Columbus set out, he was hoping to find a way to india
by going west. He didn't find what he was looking for. But he found
something totally unexpected.

Hardly. Christopher Columbus was much closer to NASA than most people
give him credit for. He knew there was no direct westerly path to India.

In that case he either had inside information that America existed (there have
I believe been claims that he had seen a Map which might have been produced by
previous Viking explorers) or he was suicidal. If he had no knowledge of
America's existence and knew there was noway for him to reach India then what
was he trying to do ? The money he "conned" out of the Spanish wouldn't do
him much good in Davey Jone's Locker.

He conned Spain into financing a junket that could not possibly accomplish
what he told them it would. Either that, or he was truly the biggest
idiot the world has ever seen.

The map was located in Turkey and supposedly there are records of his
having had access to it. In any event, you basicly agreed with me
completely. He was either an idiot or a con-man. Take your pick.
What he was not was a great explorer.

bill

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