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When the weekend box office estimates hit Sunday afternoon it appeared that Speed Racer had bombed with a $20.2-million haul, which was half what Warner Brothers anticipated, especially in light of its $120-million budget. Well, actual numbers have now surfaced and Speed Racer did even worse, bringing in $18.6-million for a 3rd-place finish, behind What Happens in Vegas.
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Speed Racer, the Wachowski Brothers' latest movie, has a stink surrounding it. I don't know if it's the look of the film, the tone of the film, or what, but every preview I see leaves me thinking one single thing: this movie is going to bomb.
Evidence of this inevitable disaster are mounting, with Speed Racer tracking lower than What Happens in Vegas. Early reviews have not been kind, with the current Rotten Tomatoes score sitting around 25%, and that's before the big-media critics have launched their attacks. Not the kind of pre-release hype you want surrounding your $120-million film.
Gone, Speed Racer, Gone.
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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued a 19-page report that is highly critical of NASA's Constellation Program. Constellation is the program that is supposed to find America returning to the moon, building a base, and eventually heading to Mars for human exploration.
According to the GAO:
NASA is currently working toward preliminary design reviews for the Ares I and Orion vehicles. While this is a phase for discovery and risk reduction, there are considerable unknowns as to whether NASA's plans for these vehicles can be executed within schedule goals and what these efforts will ultimately cost. This is primarily because NASA is still in the process of defining many performance requirements. Such uncertainties could affect the mass, loads, and weight requirements for the vehicles. NASA is aiming to complete this process in 2008, but it will be challenged to do so given the level of knowledge that still needs to be attained. The challenges NASA is facing pose risks to the successful outcome of the projects.
Personally, as a hardcore supporter of NASA, the Constellation Program is a massive waste of money to achieve goals that aren't adequately defined or needed, which shouldn't come as a surprise when one considers this entire thing was urged by the Bush Administration. Sending humans to Mars is more for our collective ego than it is for science, especially when robotics are far more inexpensive.
Read the full GAO Report here. [PDF]
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That didn't take long. In less than 24-hours, NASA has reversed course on unplugging the Spirit rover on Mars due to budget cuts.
From Discovery News:
NASA is saying Tuesday that it has rescinded a letter that recommended budget cuts in the Mars Rover program to cover the cost of a next-generation rover on the Red Planet.
The move comes a day after scientists at the agency's robotics center said they would need to hibernate one of the twin Mars robots and limit the duties of the other because their budget was being cut by $4 million.
I guess we can scrap plans for that cookie-drive now.
Good call, NASA.
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NASA has ordered $4-million in funding for the Mars Exploration Rover program to be cut from its paltry $20-million annual budget, putting at least one of the rovers in serious jeopardy.
Steve Squyres, main man for the project, tells CNN that operations for Spirit will be the likely target, with Spirit entering a forced hibernation until more money is somehow found.
These poor rovers have managed to live well beyond their projected shelf life, returning amazing data that will aid humanity in the future, have faced perilous cliffs, dust-devils and wicked storms, yet good ole budget problems are going to do them in.
Sad. Sad. Sad.
$4-million is chump change when the advancement of human knowledge and understanding is involved, but for some reason, we can always find money if it involves killing people.
Surely we can have a cookie-drive or something?
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