I think further space exploration would be awesome, but it needs to be privately funded. There's no need for taxpayer monies to be used just to explore.
I'm not convinced at all that we went to the moon -- this show I'm watching on Science Channel is asking tough questions many are afraid to investigate.
One of my shareholders is a nephew of the guy who made the moon landing possible. My shareholder was actually in the control room when it happened.
Come on, you're better than this. There were 6 successful trips and one failed trip, there is plenty of proof. Science Channel has been running a series of moon conspiracy shows and from what I've caught, scientific testing disproved them all. Check out the Myth Busters episode on moon conspiracies.
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Nice Houston and UH shout out in this one. Celebrating the Engineers (Scientific American column). "The new NASA center, rising from a muddy cattle pasture, wouldn’t be ready until 1964. In the meantime, the agency rented a smattering of buildings and suites around the greater Houston area. In some cases, apartment bedrooms and kitchens became makeshift offices. And without their own armoire-sized computers chugging away, the engineers had to borrow processing time wherever they could find it. In 1962, NASA leaned on an IBM 7090 computer at the University of Houston. Advanced for its time, with transistors instead of tubes, it still required instructions fed to it one punch card at a time, and it returned results the next morning. One of Cassetti’s jobs involved computing the exact time an orbiting astronaut should start his capsule’s fiery reentry through the atmosphere. A perfect splashdown needed to strike the Earth in daylight, near (but not too near) waiting recovery ships, and without cratering into some landmass or another. Cassetti recalls carrying his ordered stack of punch cards—his computer program—through driving summer rainstorms, with runoff so strong it lifted manhole covers from the streets."
I haven't been to NASA since I was a kid, but was thinking about taking my kids. Still worth it? Or overpriced? I wish we would have gotten that space shuttle instead of just the mockup. Thanks, Obama.
I wouldn't do it this particular month -- I've heard it's nutso. The refurbished mission control is supposedly very cool; I think it's about $30 per person though to tour it.
It's the kind of place you go once as a kid, and once with your kid. It is cool at first, but gets old pretty quick.
Blame Yankee Chuck Schumer for stealing our shuttle. Carpetbagging *******. Definitely take your kids at least once, I'd say in the fall. Take a cooler, hit up the fish markets in Seabrook on the way back (I always liked Rosie's) for some shrimp and whatnot, have backyard feast the next day. You can always hit up Kemah and help Tilman with his finances while you're there. eta: hell, now that I think about it, a good buddy of mine works there, he'd hook you up, get you in for free at least. Let me know if you're interested.
Good lord. I hate what he’s done to Kemah. Back in the ‘60’s and ‘70’s, I went there a lot, having friends who had sailboats docked at Clear Lake. There were little family run seafood places serving fish and shrimp caught that morning. After we moved to Austin in 1980, I didn’t see much of Kemah. Now I go out of my way to avoid it.
Seabrook and the other little places are still uncarnival'd. Haven't been in about 5 years, but yeah, looking at the "Boardwalk" makes me a bit sick. Just so cheap-looking and cheesy.
Yeah, parts of the area are still at least reminiscent of how it used to be. Seems like everything Fertitta touches he screws up. When I go to Galveston, he’s got a Joe’s Crab Shack where a long time family seafood place used to be. It’s sad. At least he hasn’t bought all of Galveston!
Which old restaurant? Haven't been to the island in several many years. I was sad when Col. Bubbie's closed, young kid me could spend hours there, didn't matter how hot it was. I still remember the smell.
