Who will be the next Space Power?

GO SOVIE--i mean "Russia".

Russia also doesn't like having to rent it's space station from Kazakhstan and may have to rebuild it in a few years

actually i miss read, i thought you were talking about the nuclear pulse drive thats been thrown around for a while, witch involes blowing up nukes behind a ship to push it at faster speeds. i saw that i misread it and and deleted the comment.

that's.... nice? especially to the environment.

yeah thats one reason why it has not been done. also to che the russians new engine still have a high level chance that is anything goes wrong that the reactor that powers it in it's upper stage could spread radioactive material over a very large area, one reason NASA pass up on it back in the 70's and 80's

The nuclear phase of the rocket wouldn't start until they were well into space. Father than the distance of the moon.

well that still doesn't effect the fact that you have a reactor on what is basically a large controlled bomb. if anything goes wrong in early mid or late stage of takeoff that reactor is still on and can spread fall out over half of Russia.

Edit: also that would pretty much make it useless, if your past the moon you have broke earth orbit and moon obit, you no longer need thrust or the space that would take up, you'd be better off the normal maneuvering jets

Most likely will be China.

China's space program is where the US was in the '60's I don't see then doing anything anytime soon except tagging along with someone else.

Who North Korea dont make me laugh. But anywho if China dosent then Russia would proably seize the oppurtuinity.

Who North Korea dont make me laugh. But anywho if China dosent then Russia would proably seize the oppurtuinity.[/quote:2t7raceh]

eh, the worst that could happen is the immediate destruction of america through orbital nucler bombs being droped, otherwise it doesn't matter.

I personally think it would be funny if Russia got Cosmonauts on Mars... I'm being quite serious.

eh, the worst that could happen is the immediate destruction of america through orbital nucler bombs being droped, otherwise it doesn't matter.[/quote:lp2533dp]

Unlikely, without an affective missle counter, no nation will ever risk the MAD system.

Unlikely, without an affective missle counter, no nation will ever risk the MAD system.[/quote:19v9n2sg]
Fuck the MA whatever system, let's go to space, bitches!

eh, the worst that could happen is the immediate destruction of america through orbital nucler bombs being droped, otherwise it doesn't matter.[/quote]

Unlikely, without an affective missle counter, no nation will ever risk the MAD system.[/quote]
Fuck the MA whatever system, let's go to space, bitches![/quote]

Do you even know what the MAD system is? Or how it works? It has nothing to do with space travel/expansion.

I'll assume it's this:

MSA Systems, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA with offices in Anaheim CA, Portland OR, Phoenix, Sierra Vista AZ and Denver CO. We provide turn-key field mobility solutions, warehouse management solutions, barcoding and RFID software and hardware as well as the related wireless infrastructure services. We are an authorized partner and reseller of Accellos, Mobile Frame, Motorola / Symbol Technologies, Zebra, and Intermec, among other key mobile and data capture technology providers.

Or this:

Measurement system analysis (MSA) uses scientific tools to determine the amount of total variation is from the measurement system. An objective method to assess the validity of a measurement system and minimize these factors that could excessively contribute to the variation in the data.

#2 is probably a bit more correct.
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wow that was so far away from being what Imperial1917 was talking about that it hurts me to have read that.

Not only are you wrong... no, you're just wrong. First of all you got the initials wrong. Second, MAD stands for Mutually Assured Destruction. In layman's terms, it says that if one person launches missles [specifically nuclear in nature most of the time] against an enemy, that enemy and his allies will respond in kind, prompting the first laucher's allies to launch and basically, everybody dies.

Though in retrospect, you are probably just trolling.

I'm sorry, I forgot what abbreviation was and i rememberd hearing this somewhere.

Mutually Asssured Destruction. The reason why the DPRK has a nuclear program. An inssurance policy to stop America from nuking them or declaring war on them. If America wants to declare war on the DPRK America can say good bye to Puppet Korea and Japans Capitals. And a nuclear missile launched so close to China, yeah they arent just going to sit there.