Privitize The Mars Rovers RIGHT NOW!
March 24th, 2008 by Wadical WeftAccording to this full slice of baloney, NASA intends to “put one of the twin Mars rovers to sleep and limit the activities of the other robot to fulfill a NASA order to cut $4 million from the program’s budget” The rovers are no good if they can’t move. Why not sell them to the highest bidder on something such as EBay? I would imagine that such a sale would include access to the control rooms for the two rovers until they fail and rights to all NASA controlled technology used.
NOTE: According to a thinner slice of baloney, NASA “has absolutely no plan to turn off either of the Mars Rovers because of budget cuts”.
March 25th, 2008 at 10:11 am
AND the private parties would pay their share of all R&D costs as well as launch, EDL & operating costs. NO FREE RIDES for anyone.
Otherwise it is just socialism for the cash rich.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
I disagree SC. In this scenario, it would have been better to let the cash rich get control of the rovers rather than let them be idled. Fortunately, this doesn’t appear to be an immediate issue.