EU and Russia Show Off New Lunar Spacecraft Design 184
schliz writes "Space flight planners have unveiled a new spaceship design for a joint EU/Russian trip to the Moon. The EU will be building the crew capsule, using technology developed for the automatic cargo system used to supply the International Space Station." First one to link to decent pics (the article has none) wins undying gratitude and a warm feeling inside.
Re:Undying gratitude?? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Simply not true (Score:3, Funny)
Money is not a precise way to measure the cheapness of things in real life.
Try telling that to the grocery store clerk.
If you take the average price and subtract the average raise increase then you have a very very precise way of measuring the cheapness of something.
In this case the cost is +.5 and the wages are +0 (.5-0)= +.5
Unless you live in a fairy land costs adjusted for inflation and wage changes is an excellent means of determinig the cheapness of things in real life. Especially when the currency is practically tied to the cost of energy (Joules).
By your own admission the goverment is causing inflation by printing money. That makes things cost more. Now... if you make $50 a day and the government causes the price of a meal to rise %100 because they're printing more money... but your boss doesn't give you a raise. The prices have risen but you have no more money to spend. I can't fathom any way to explain this except that the price has risen.
Re:Links to pics and the BBC article (Score:5, Funny)
More pictures here [slashdot.org]. It's a Slashdot article from Thursday entitled "First Images of Russian-European Manned Spacecraft".
Link to further discussion of this vehicle (Score:5, Funny)
Re:About time (Score:3, Funny)
Where do you get your figures from? According to nationalpriorities.org (which given its bias would tend to overestimate, if anything), it 'only' costs $340e6 per day.
(You may be amused to know that that would pay off my mortgage in slightly more than 30 seconds.)