- "Re-inspire children to want to get into science and math"
- "Expand our international relationships"
- "Third and foremost, to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with predominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering."
Monday 5 July 2010
The New World
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If the choice was to take budget money for idiotic "hands across the desert" projects or close the agency, I think the latter might be the correct course.
Is NASA to become a division of the State Dept now?
After the 2012 elections, if saner heads have prevailed, reopen NASA as perhaps some sort of space related agency, with luck in time to keep all the com and GPS sats from falling down (although I tend to think there would be a private agency that could do the work and would prefer to see it. Think UPS vs. the Post Office).
As it is, the agency is on the verge of becoming simple court jesters, and that just isn't right.
I have to admit, I was hoping that Obama's policy towards NASA would be benign neglect. A situation where he simply forgets we have a space agency and let's it run on auto-pilot. Unfortunately, that hasn't happened and the new administrator doesn't have the stones to tell the boss he's out of his mind.
I'm sorry some of our "friends" in the Middle East don't feel good about their contributions to science and technology. Perhaps they feel that way because they haven't really made any recently. Here's an idea guys, how about joining the rest of us the 21st Century, where women get to vote and drive cars, and people of other faiths are treated as first class citizens.
Well, that's rather dandy. Looks like H. Husseinovich is still riding the hobby horse of making friends out of enemies by the bare strength of his charisma. Slightly less effective than scaring away a solar eclipse by making noise at it, needless to say---problem identified correctly, but the proposed solution is worse than doing nothing. I was hoping that conversations about things that rhyme with "bombing Iran forward to the Stone Age" (not a very clever rhyme, I'll admit, but still...) would happen during tomorrow's meeting with Netanyahu, but apparently we're still pursuing wishful-thinking-diplomacy here. Maybe if we think really, really wishfully it'll work! We shall need another Churchill for 2012, I'm afraid, and I'm not sure we've got one.
(Remember, kiddies, an enemy is just a friend you haven't made yet. A deranged, homicidal friend, who disagrees with you fundamentally about what constitutes good and evil, and whose favorite snack happens to be outstretched hands. What can possibly go wrong?)
"We're not gonna' go anywhere beyond low-earth orbit as a single entity - the United State can't do it..."
Huh? Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that exactly what we did when we landed all those men on the moon 30 years ago? Last time I checked, the moon was definitely beyond low-earth orbit.
"Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that exactly what we did when we landed all those men on the moon 30 years ago?"
If it didn't happen during this Administration, it either didn't happen, or we need to apologize for it. Since landing on the Moon doesn't sound like something you should apologize for (of course more enlightened minds might disagree), my guess is it didn't really happen.
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