Posted on 07/03/2025 6:13:53 AM PDT by PIF
NASA doesn’t have the ability at the moment to carry humans into space and hasn’t for 15 years. Hasn’t affected me in the slightest.
And I couldn’t give a flying fornication who plays around in space or is “the leader”. Besides satellites and such, it’s not important to everyday life.
Pretty much, space has moved beyond the nation state and into the Musk zone. NASA is a backwater, struggling for relevance.
NASA isn’t a leader anymore. And face facts, the cool photos from the space telescopes do not and will never do anything useful to us besides provide some esoteric information and cool posters for the wall of science classrooms.
They are eyeballs deep in the global warming scam, and haven’t flown an astronaut in 15 years. They needed their wings clipped...or a bitch slap, if you prefer.
Very lucky. And NASA signed off on every step.
I like the science, but not the cost. Maybe if NASA had tried to even remotely run itself as a “for profit” business like SpaceX... they wouldn’t be paying $1500 for a hammer and $50k for a toilet seat.
Imagine the science we could have had without all the payola and graft...
“Coupled with the possible collapse of SpaceX from 47’s vengeance feud with Musk”
Generally, one has to be pretty reasonable to reach the top level.
“Some people just hate science and there is no way to convince them otherwise.”
Spend two decades using “science” as a cudgel, and yeah, people begin to resent it. Two decades of global warming, climate change, faggotry, penis chopping, the covid scam, and the assaholic lectures from biotech, social distancing, dietary rules whipsawing back and forth from carbs to no carbs, butter to margarine, eggs are good, eggs are bad. Canola oil is healthy, Canola oil is dangerous...
“Science Inc” has pissed away it’s credibility. And NASA has been the pinnacle of non-performance and assaholic climate and gender lectures from frizzy haired female astronauts who can’t be bothered with a hair tie.
The wanna be listened to? Do something useful for a decade, STFU, and quit making it a breathless “But Russia! But China!”
When a plane runs out of energy, it stalls. NASA has run out of energy and has finally stalled out.
Anyone who dares invoke NASA of the 1960s.... ok. Wanna bring back THAT Nasa? That white male, patriotic and successful Nasa?
THAT is how you do it, not by trying to wrap yourself in their holy cloak.
“SpaceX”
As far as space is concerned, Space X’s recent launch failures are the most concerning.
It’s “$cience” now. You get the science you pay for.
Good it should be. When NASA turned it’s back on real science to push DEI and Climate Change propaganda, it ended it usefullness
It time Conservative grow up. EVERYTHING needs to be cut. You can’t have any scared cows. This is how we gotten 36 trillion in debt. Instead of cutting anything, we always have this or that scared cow that “must” be funded no matter how corrupt or useless the agency has become.
Sacred cows but yours was probably more accurate.
Yes yes. NASA is another agency that can’t possibly tighten its bell, needs massive funding forever, dump trucks full of flaming grant money in perpetual eternal funding or we are all going to die..... Etc etc ...
Didn't Russia put an EMP device into orbit this week?
> Didn’t Russia put an EMP device into orbit this week? <
I don’t know. But you have hit upon an important point, one I should have made earlier.
We are a debtor nation. So the question becomes:
Is the project important enough that we should borrow money to fund it?
When it comes to EMP defense, I think the answer is yes.
When it comes to things like the Hubble space telescope, I think the answer is no.
One year I listed my occupation as Angry Astronaut on my tax return.
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That’s the thing. There are people who are saying it is all on Boeing.
It isn’t. NASA has to accept it and sign off on it. And that is the problem right there.
They accepted it and signed off on it...when it clearly was unsafe.
I understand the mindset of people who are angry that people like us write off NASA. It is disillusioning in much the same way many of us have become disillusioned with the FBI which used to be trusted many years ago, and now most of us sensibly would refuse to speak to them without a warrant or a lawyer present.
NASA has failed us as well in much the same way, as a former admired and trusted institution. I hear people say NASA should get out of the manned spaceflight portion and stick to unmanned robotics, etc.
Maybe that is true.
Believe it or not, I really don’t care.
I also worked in the federal govt for 30 years, there’s is plenty of waste. But you probably don’t believe that either.
Many folks have forgotten projects that were on the planning board in the 1950s and 1960s.
Here is one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Horizon
Our failure to achieve those goals these many decades later is—to put it bluntly—pathetic.
” I would argue that going back to the moon is the only one that has national security value.”
Our national security has little to do with the moon. We have yet to get anything out of space travel directly that has been a boom to the human race. All the technology we developed was to accomplish space travel not because of it. It may be something for the future when we can get past our current problems, just not at the moment.
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There are a lot of redundant and useless government jobs that need to be cut. Does NASA really need to have historians on the payroll? There are plenty of clerks and other paper pushers who can archive NASA’s materials.
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