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Offline SCEtoAUX

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Re: MER-A "Spirit"
« Reply #60 on: March 25, 2008, 08:49:30 PM »
Hey, gotta kill off one of the most successful projects in recent NASA history to fund about 15 more minutes of the Iraq war, right...
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Offline Ljungan

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Re: MER-A "Spirit"
« Reply #61 on: March 25, 2008, 10:20:40 PM »
Perhaps some other countries would be willing to provide funding to keep them going.
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Offline ijuin

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Re: MER-A "Spirit"
« Reply #62 on: March 25, 2008, 11:47:50 PM »
Literally--if you spread out the budget for the war over all of the time in a year, more money is spent in ONE HOUR on the war than is being slashed here. Hell, for the money that has already been spent on the war, we could go to Mars and back.
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Offline Satanic Mechanic

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Re: MER-A "Spirit"
« Reply #63 on: March 26, 2008, 10:34:05 AM »
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Offline Ottawan

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Re: MER-A "Spirit"
« Reply #64 on: March 26, 2008, 10:51:27 AM »
Cooler heads prevailed for once!!! Good on them.
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