The Glade 4.0

From "Children of Men" director Alfonso Cuarón. No idea how this is going to be a whole movie, but damn, intense trailer.

I really don't understand how we get all this interest in space thrillers over the last few years while simultaneously gutting our space program.

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Clearly you hate poor people, the nation of Russia, and are a racist.

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Seriously, though. In the last ten years, we've had:
Battlestar Galactica
The Chronicles of Riddick
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Serenity
Sunshine
Avatar
Cargo
Moon
Star Trek
Space Battleship Yamato
Europa Report
Star Trek: Into Darkness
and now Gravity

For well-recieved and/or high profile space films.

Meanwhile,

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"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

I do not know what these are.

They're foreign. Space Battleship Yamato is a live action version of an old anime. I haven't seen it, nor really want to, but recognized the name.

Cargo's another foreign film. I've been wanting to get around to see it if I can find it.

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"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

I don't know Kaffis. Personally, I just feel like they look at anything that helps science or the people, and then cut that first.

Space Battleship Yamato

Is this related to Star Blazers?

One hopes it's the movie industry attempting to generate interest in space so that the public will support funding a space program again.

This made me curious.

The total outlays by the Fed in 1992 were $1,381,540,000,000
The total outlays by the Fed in 2007 were $2,728,700,000,000

When one compare the spending for the two years, the outlay for NASA was not gutted so much as pretty constant. What am I missing?

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What was it in 1977?

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Obama's presidency?

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Wiki sez:
In 1977 the NASA budget was $11,658M
In 1992 the NASA budget was $15,310M
In 2000 the NASA budget was $14,926M
In 2007 the NASA budget was $15,861M

The above is in constant 2007 $
As a reference, the Moon Landing was in 1969, the first space shuttle launch was in 1981. I too bought into the tale that NASA's budget had been slashed over the years...

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

Given inflation, isn't maintaining a constant still basically getting "slashed?"

FY 2012 budget was $17.7B, I'd be happy with 30.

Star Blazers was the American name of the same series so yes.

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Nope, using "constant dollars" is a means of accounting for inflation. The "nominal" dollar amount is the money allocated in that year, the constant dollar is what the nominal dollar amount would be worth (in this case) in 2007.

$30B got us to the moon, I'd like to see what they could do with it now. Another thing I found interesting what the amount of contractor labor that was actually used during the Space Race time period.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

Missed your link. Doh.

NASA functionality isn't restricted to dollar outlays.

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