The US Postal Service back in the Days. (lone gone)
However, Obama and corrupt government has screwed that up now also. NASA will never be the same.
Even the military will go to shit soon. Big government drives good people away. It attracts the wrong crowd.
Nothing recently, but what about the Manhattan Project and the Apollo program?
Nothing.
And after homosexuals have been allowed to serve openly in the military,
The answer is still nothing.
The moon landing
Space shuttle
Hubble telescope (after they fixed the optics)
The moon landing
Space shuttle
Hubble telescope (after they fixed the optics)
Not much else since the 70's.
This Obama lead Government has taken a once prosperous country and turned us into the biggest debtor nation on Earth.
If that’s not bad enough a lot of those billions of dollars in wealth were just thrown away on unproven environmental schemes..
We are so screwed its not funny.
Other than that, I can't think of anything.
Similar to the question I have been asking for more than a year now: In the last 50 years, what has the government done that was really good for everyone?
NOTHING. Since the Interstate and Defense Highway system I can’t think of a thing. Sure, Reagan made us proud for a little while, more-or-less ended the cold war, we did the right thing for Kuwait and ourselves... these were military actions that are part of the basic expectations. But as for actions or public policy that has made the day-to-day lives of all Americans better? NOTHING that I can point to. NOTHING that demonstrates global leadership and puts the United States out ahead of the rest of the world.
Sweeping tax policy for the better... no, just more complexity and higher taxes.
Cogent visionary energy policy with programs on par with going to the moon that would cement our competitive edge for decades if not centuries to come... no, just spending money and more crushing regulations that raise the cost of everything.
Unleashing competitive medical care... no, just more tax funded programs that have done nothing but raise costs
NOTHING.
Is the Martian Rover recent enough?
Voyager was quite a while ago.
How about - NOT getting involved in the College BCS
As the poster at despair.com says - Government, if you think the problems are bad, wait until you see our solutions!
Is the Martian Rover recent enough?
Voyager was quite a while ago.
How about - NOT getting involved in the College BCS
As the poster at despair.com says - Government, if you think the problems are bad, wait until you see our solutions!
“What has the government done to make you proud?”
NOT issue Lady Gaga, Madonna, Black-Eyed Peas, Whitney Houston, Studio 54, Kurt Cobain/Courtney Love, Flava Flav, Guns and Roses, Barney the Dinosaur, Trayvon or Eminem (too many to list here) postage stamps.
Also, I’m proud of the fact that I can still apply for an extension to file my 1040 even though it is not an extension to pay! Pay???
Recently?
Illinois governors making license plates?
Take the advice of the late great Andrew Breitbart and ignore Beck.
http://nation.foxnews.com/andrew-breitbart/2011/12/13/breitbart-goes-coward-glenn-beck-he-dead-me
Try turning this around; we are so screwed....
Which government? There are many. But do you mean the feds? Didn’t they invent the Internet?
(I know, I know, it was actually Al Gore. But he was a federal employee — to be specific, a Congursmun — at the time!)
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, something NASA plays down because it represents one of the few things inspired by conservatives the White House was unable to shut down. That, and too many scientists can't be bothered with politics (so naturally politics bothers with them.)
The LRO has been in lunar orbit almost three years, longer than anything any human contraption has ever managed to keep in lunar orbit. It has returned to Earth more data than all the previous human deep space probes combined, several times over. Photographed nearly the entire Moon in high resolution, etc. etc. And its done more than just shoot pretty pictures (again, for the first time) of human artifacts. Long after the mission is completed, for at least a decade to come, investigators will be pouring over that pile of data.
And it was all done on-time, under budget.
This reproduction of a roughly 188 meter wide segment (between lines 18602 and 19053) of LROC Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) observation M168000580R may not be the best view of the Apollo 17 lunar module descent stage or the rover tracks and foot prints left behind by Cernan & Schmitt in 1972, still it was collected from an altitude of only 22.41 kilometers on August 14, 2011; LRO orbit 9892, official resolution 0.41 meters per pixel with an incidence angle of 45.17° From the post "LROC NAC August Close-Ups, Part 3," December 31, 2011 [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].
All that being said, that's not saying much for a budget and debt wall. It's not even one brick in the Washington Monument, by comparison.
Want something not Space-related?
Tough one... A picture comes to mind. That of U.S. Navy personnel as the backdoor of a helicopter opens up after landing somewhere on Sumatra after the Boxing Day earthquake in 2005. In his arms is a box of rescue supplies, and on his face is genuine apprehension.
That made me proud, I guess. And believe it or not, the federal response to Katrina made me proud, considering the state and local breakdown, I just never bought the shameless feeding frenzy of the press.
All that sounds like a lot, but it's not much.
Our nation has become decadent, a self-perpetuating orthodoxy rather than the civilizing influence it started out being, because of the shared attitudes of out people.
Last night, while channel surfing, I noted that the documentary "Woodstock" was being replayed by VH1. Watching the clueless mudbathers descending into self-absorption, I recalled that weirdness happened just about the same time as the first moon landing, and the aftermath of Ted Kennedy's freestyle swim...
‘MENĒ, MENĒ, TEKĒL, UPHARSIN.’