“One giant leap (backwards) for mankind!” June 1, 2007
Posted by changenickel in Bush Bashing, Crazy Shit.trackback
I’ve been a huge fan of NASA for years. I grew up with the space shuttle and I remember when challenger exploded on takeoff. Then there was Hubble. Wow! Recently NASA has had enormous success with their unmanned missions with landings on Mars, Saturn’s moon Titan and even an asteroid! But I have had issue with this administration’s pointless goal to put a permanent base on the moon with an eventual manned mission to Mars. I would totally be geeked if we did get to Mars but the scientist in me says there is still so much to be learned from the current unmanned missions before we venture out again. Not to mention the actual goal of the mission other than to say a human has landed on Mars. We did that during the cold war with the race to the moon and all we got were a bunch of rocks!
I just listened to an interview with the current administrator of NASA on NPR yesterday. OK, so he agrees with the administration about going to Mars. A lot of starry eyed geeks also want to see it happen but as a scientist at NASA he should have better foresight into such things. You can imagine my jaw dropping to the floor when this puppet of the administration actually questioned global warming! There should be a sign on the door to NASA that reads, “No Bush lackeys in the house of ginormous brains!!”
Listen for yourself:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10571499
Good post, Pauly. I heard this briefly mentioned on the radio while driving this morning which caused me to curse a bluestreak and the kid to give me the raised-eyebrow-look.