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Go Artemis! (Be Gone!): NASA Space Launch System Victory Costs More than It's Worth

Bill Whittle Network

Bill Whittle Network

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4.9720 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

"This is so 20th century." That's space-geek and former NASA cheerleader Bill Whittle's reaction to the liftoff (finally) of the NASA Space Launch System Artemis mission, on an unmanned journey to lap the Moon and return. Should government just step aside and let Elon Musk and the private space enterprises do what NASA can't? Bill Whittle, Stephen Green and Scott Ott have co-hosted news discussion shows weekly since 2009, born aloft on the engine of our Members and donors, to whom we are deeply grateful. To donate with PayPal of bank card, tap https://BillWhittle.com/donate-to-Bill-Whittle To Become a Member, tap http://BillWhittle.com/register/

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0:00.0

Bill Whittle.

0:01.4

You can't start with a yawn.

0:03.3

That's not acceptable.

0:04.8

It's my show.

0:05.9

I can start yon of my woodland.

0:08.3

Because actually my topic is yon.

0:10.3

My topic is kind of yawn inspiring.

0:13.7

I'll probably catch some hell for this, but I don't care.

0:18.4

So the space launch system cleared the pad in the dark of night.

0:24.4

And I think the first thing we ought to do is rename Artimus, Project Artemis into Project Pyrus, right?

0:30.8

After famous King Pyrus of a Pyrrhus who won a victory over the Romans that cost him so badly,

0:36.6

he said one more victory like this and

0:37.9

will all be lost. Now to be clear, Bill, because nobody has heard of the space launch system.

0:44.6

Can you just give a one sentence description of what you're talking about? Because nobody's

0:49.2

paying attention to this. Okay. The definition of a boat is a hole in the water surrounded by wood into which one pours money.

0:57.1

And in the case of the space launch system, it's the same thing except it's a cylinder in Florida into which one pours money and then sets it on fire.

1:08.3

It's a gigantic quarry of fossilized idea into which one pours money and sets it on fire.

1:15.8

So King Pirates, of course, is the person who gave us the idea of a Pirate victory,

1:20.3

a victory that hurts you so bad that it's a tandem out to a defeat.

1:25.9

So I watched this thing lift off and,

1:30.6

and there's just so many sensations that I had.

1:33.9

The first one that just kept ringing in my head,

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