Posted on 07/10/2010 3:08:40 AM PDT by Scanian
Maybe it's the Dog Days of Summer. Perhaps it's the heat -- 102 degrees in Washington -- that's getting to people's heads. But President Obama's latest policy, announced by his NASA administrator, astronaut Charles Bolden, is about to melt down.
Speaking on the Arabic language network Al Jazeera, Bolden said Mr. Obama had given him his marching orders for NASA: Get American kids re-inspired to do better in math and science. Work on international cooperation. And perhaps most important: Find ways to "reach out" to the Muslim world to affirm their strong contributions to science and engineering.
First, we have to consider that President Obama is gutting NASA's budget. He has scrapped the Constellation Program that would take Americans back to the moon. There are possible resources there that could help all of us on earth with our energy needs. Former Sen. Harrison Schmitt, who walked on the moon, says we could mine the helium-3 that is abundant beneath the lunar surface and use it for nuclear fusion. Perhaps, perhaps not, but we are unlikely to know if we're not going back there.
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I liked the suggestion that Zer0 could forward some of NASA’s real moon rocks to use for future sharia stonings.
If the Obama administration has grounded NASA and plans no new flights, why is there still a NASA? Will they get new office space next to the Department of Buggy Whips?
no way- i say send them into space and whenthey want to say their prayers tell them to prostrate themselves facing east
no way- i say send them into space and whenthey want to say their prayers tell them to prostrate themselves facing east
Never mind Hugh, this is Sirius.
NASA - National Arabic Sensitivity Administration.
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
Beware the moon mission....
Educated idiot guts NASA unicorn farms to ensue.
I would take this as an insult if I was Muslim that the evil US has to tell them how to improve their confidence.
What a joke.
Sorry Mr Obama reaching out to Muslims with Taxpayer Money Through NASA is Forbidden You Silly Man ,SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE!
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