[whiskeyjack]

Ive heard from a few different people who dont know each other say that the American Space Program is pretty much grinding to a halt. In my opinion space exploration sounds like a cool thing and i think Canada should have a program. We have the space to launch shuttles from off the ground and the almost all resources to completely build a fleet of shuttles. It would probally even make use of the unemployed and create more manufacturing jobs or something. Mabye it could be a canadian who creates the next fastest fusion whatever its called space engine...

[sandorski]

Too expensive and "space" to launch shuttles is not really a rare thing. The Vatican could make the space if they really wanted to.

We should join a Global Space program. Contribute $ and Technology, without spending huge amounts of money we could use better elsewhere.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Canada can't afford a space program, plain and simple. At least not one similar to NASA.
Personally, I feel space exploration is a waste of time. Seems pretty stupid spending all that money in space when you consider that water covers 75-80% of the planet and we have barely explored 5% of it. When you consider that a lot of the technology for space exploration could also be used for deep water exploration, it seems to me we should be focusing on our planet.

[Mr_Canada]

We do have a Space Program, just not one that actually goes to *space*...

Before we do anything,. we should take over the planet. Like, to the Maximum. Get every single possible thing under our control. Make the planet literally "ours" and become more powerful then nature.

Once we've mastered Earth, then maybe we can try getting elsewhere.

[CDN_PATRIOT]

We should have a space program. I mean, we do supply NASA with top-notch equipment, astronauts, etc. Even if we only launch satellites, that would still be cool. I would watch Canadian launches on TV for sure.

-J.

[1Peg]

whiskeyjack wrote:

Ive heard from a few different people who dont know each other say that the American Space Program is pretty much grinding to a halt.

The space shuttle program is on the back burner, for now. They will have to rely on the Russians for space launches.

[Thanos]

I'd say go into the commercial satellite-launching business and make some real money but the Euros seem to have a corner on that market thanks to the set-up they've got running down in South America.

A definite "NO" to a government-run clone of NASA. Once you look into what a clusterfuck of a bureaucracy NASA's always been then it'd just be plain wrong to want to copy it in Canada. If we're going to go all out on big purchases designed to boost the national pride, I'd rather us buy about a dozen nuclear submarines (which would actually be useful, especially in the far North) instead of being the smallest new fish in an enterprise that's already dominated by the Americans, Euros, Russians, and now the Chinese. It'd cost way too much for too little gain.

[QBC]

Yeah, probably not the best financially responsible idea.....But WTF...we could just launch goofy shit up into space just to mess with peoples minds. I bet some people would just shit themselves if we put up a huge paper mache asteroid right over Washington.

[Mr_Canada]

QBC wrote:

Yeah, probably not the best financially responsible idea.....But WTF...we could just launch goofy shit up into space just to mess with peoples minds. I bet some people would just shit themselves if we put up a huge paper mache asteroid right over Washington.

Just for the hell of it, I agree.

We could shape it like stuff. A beer bottle. The Peace Tower. Some obnoxious pro-Canadian crap.

Let's do it.

[Yogi]

Could Canada have their own 'space program'? Why not? God knows we have more than enough 'space cadets' already in Ottawa to run the program and staff 'headquarters'!!!

[Lemmy]

Yogi wrote:

Could Canada have their own 'space program'? Why not? God knows we have more than enough 'space cadets' already in Ottawa to run the program and staff 'headquarters'!!!

Space Cadets? Holy hell, I haven't heard that term since 1988. You've been sitting around watching John Hughes movies all weekend, haven't you, Yogi?

[Yogi]

Lemmy wrote:

Yogi wrote:

Could Canada have their own 'space program'? Why not? God knows we have more than enough 'space cadets' already in Ottawa to run the program and staff 'headquarters'!!!

Space Cadets? Holy hell, I haven't heard that term since 1988. You've been sitting around watching John Hughes movies all weekend, haven't you, Yogi?

Nah. Just reruns of 'stelmach & co.'!

[KorbenDeck]

Could we? Only if we were able to give our entire nation an overhaul so that Canada had the wealth and resources to do it. As it stands now, no Canada could not we simply do not have the wealth or the guts as a society to do it.

Should we? Yes, just because its space doesn't mean we shouldn't try to be at the forefront of that technology. In a few hundred years (assuming Humans haven't wiped each other out or Canada has been invaded)its realist to see humans living in the billions in space.

Its much like the worlds oceans hundreds of years ago, at the time people could not see any reason to go far out into the ocean when they had no idea what was there. Those that did though received a massive pay off for doing so

[Proculation]

A space program is so 1962...

[Thanos]

Yogi wrote:

Lemmy wrote:

Yogi wrote:

Could Canada have their own 'space program'? Why not? God knows we have more than enough 'space cadets' already in Ottawa to run the program and staff 'headquarters'!!!

Space Cadets? Holy hell, I haven't heard that term since 1988. You've been sitting around watching John Hughes movies all weekend, haven't you, Yogi?

Nah. Just reruns of 'stelmach & co.'!

Ewww! Worst horror movie EVAH!