Tell that to all the people who are struggling to pay their bills. Let me see if I can find out how 19 million and the cost of a space shuttle launch combined would help out the people here or help to close our pourous borders to the horde.

Hey, people struggling to pay your bills:

19 Million is small change for the government.

The space shuttle was going to be launched anyway. There's no special launch for the pump.

Sure, try to cover your liberal view of the world... dude, this will haunt you. :D

Ok, 500 million is chump change to you...

Again tell it to those trying to pay the bills...

A7. What does a single shuttle launch cost?
[written by Dwayne Allen Day]

About $400-500 million. This is just the cost of the 8 or so missions per year divided into the total cost of the program per year. Adding another mission to the ones already planned costs about $100 million or so. If you work in the development costs, then the cost of each shuttle mission can be as high as $1.5 billion, but this number keeps going down as more and more shuttles are launched and the development costs are amortized over more total flights.

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/4411/faq-a.htm

I think we should just sit back and smile at the pretty lights in the sky.

2-3 days worth of Iraq. And already budgeted for.

And I didn't say that the shuttle was small change, I said that the toilet was, and the fact that a toilet broke...
...isn't some sort of revelatory experience.

It must be good to be a Happy Monkey. Your web monkey is funny.

Help in on the way. ;)

:lol2:

Bruce, you slay me.

you need to read tws post again...
unmanned robots don't need a toilet.

My posts agree that the manned program is to expensive. I accept that it is cheaper for unmanned programs. If we go all un-manned that means we should be able to trim their budget by 90% and they can still do what they want to do.

OK, this clinches it. Martians only have 4 toes.

Somewhere a Martian is missing his foot...

Phoenix landed on his leg, and he had to chew his foot off before picture was taken.