Das Smithsonian muss möglicherweise die Raumfähre Discovery in Stücke schneiden
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/the-smithsonian-might-have-to-cut-space-shuttle-discovery-into-pieces-to-get-it-to-texas
Das Smithsonian muss möglicherweise die Raumfähre Discovery in Stücke schneiden
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/the-smithsonian-might-have-to-cut-space-shuttle-discovery-into-pieces-to-get-it-to-texas
23 Kommentare
Good. Cut it into many pieces, then ship each piece to a different state for display. Let it serve as a lesson to congresspeople about what their legislative process does to projects.
Why does the Smithsonian have to follow the order? They own it. What jurisdiction does the government have over their collection?
could it be protested and delayed for at least a year and a half?
Well they tore down half the fucking White House so they might as well at this point.
Cut that ship into pieces? This is the last resort
Don’t we have far more pressing issues that could use whatever funding would be eaten up by this boondoggle? „Nope, we’re gonna cut that space shuttle up and make a point, even though we’re not exactly sure of the point itself“
With how easy it was to find people happy to wreck the hell out of the White House, I bet they’ll have no problem finding a bunch of clowns to chop this priceless artifact into pieces.
I’d bet money they fuck it up so badly the whole thing finds a way to catch on fire.
Do these pieces count towards Trump’s Nobel Piece Prize?
E: spelling
What about using one of those C130s or their even bigger brother than fit a whole other plane in it? World just need to dismantle the arms then.
I feel like this is a King Solomon moment. Let’s cut the baby into pieces and see who cries the loudest.
Didn’t they make a plane to carry this thing, I feel like I have seen something like that before.
As much as I hate this. I still can’t overlook the irony that Americans are outraged an artifact of historical and cultural significance is being taken from them, ruined, and put on display at another museum.
Calling it now. IF the administration does try and do away with NASA, right after this really sneaky „Space craft transportation“ line was rammed to the One Big Beautiful Bill….which didn’t name the craft by name…..and they’re transporting it to Houston, TX…..where does anyone think Discovery is going to go if NASA goes away?
On a personal level, I don’t understand the fascination with the space shuttles. For me, they are a monument to wasted lives and resources.
Cutting it up would be tragic. This is an amazing historical relic of the 20th century. We need to look after it for *centuries* to come.
Texas already has a shuttle in pieces.. They don’t need another
Can’t we just use super computers to compute a road path, where the roads are all wide enough to accomodate the shuttle (78 feet wide) on a flatbed, accounting for shoulders and just regular open areas beyond the roads?
And then have the supercomputer go through those and eliminate any options without the necessary height clearance (roughly 50 feet).
And it weighed a little more than double the maximum normally allowed on most roads (~165k pounds, though maybe without all of the internals needed for flight it can be a bit less)… so have the supercomputer figure that in as well.
And then „all you need to do“ is coordinate with the hundreds of counties, towns, cities between A-and-B to avoid causing major traffic headaches with closed roads.
Bound to be pretty expensive, but if the „cut it up and reassemble it“ plan is $120-150M, I’d have to guess it could be a decent bit less (with perhaps less risk of the permanent damage from cutting it up).
A bunch of Senators who never wanted to fund the Shuttle program now fighting over it’s corpse. Houston was denied a Shuttle the first time around because their plan was a half-assed as when they put a Saturn V outside under the sun until it fell apart to the point they had to take it down and ask for a Falcon 9 to put there.
All to coddle Trump and Texas Republicans’ fragile egos.
This might be a dumb question but… do we no longer have the special 747 used to transport the shuttles around? I mean, how did it get there in the first place?
Or they could, you know, leave it the fuck where it is.
Republicans are currently demolishing the White House. What makes you think they give a rat’s ass about destroying a Space Shuttle?
Delay, delay, delay until the orange man goes away.