Lori Garver's Small Vision of the Next Fifty Years in Space

Associated Content ^ | September 5th, 2010 | Mark R. Whittington

[Marcus]

Recently NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver made a speech to the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics on what she termed "the next fifty years in space." The address was primarily a defense of the controversial Obama space policy.

Beyond some of the soaring rhetoric and some good, but vague wordage about the roles of commercial space and NASA, one could not help but notice how tinny and small the Garver, which is to say the Obama, vision of the next fifty years in space really is.

[FlingWingFlyer]

It’s sounds like it’s going to take NASA a long time to help the muzzies build up their self-esteem.

[buccaneer81]

The author nails it right here:

Or is it something more sinister? Perhaps the President and his people so disdain American exceptionalism and power that they will avoid anything, at all cost, that would tend to enhance both. The asteroids and Mars are scheduled so far in the future that one cannot trust this administration to be serious about either."

[Regulator]

Lori Garver is a vapid, vacuous space groupie who should have been relegated to being an events coordinator for a student space group, which is where she started.

And should have stayed.

[Regulator]

There's some truth to that.

But it's more grungy, filthy and low rent then even a political motive like that.

The truth is, for decades the low lifes have been screaming that any money spent on space exploration or science should have been spent on welfare: more booze money for the garbage of society.

That's what it's really about with the occupant of the White Hut. He just wants more walkin' around money for his bro's.

[buccaneer81]

Absolutely true.

[Captain Beyond]

space ping

[UCANSEE2]

The truth is, for decades the low lifes have been screaming that any money spent on space exploration or science should have been spent on welfare: more booze money for the garbage of society. That's what it's really about with the occupant of the White Hut. He just wants more walkin' around money for his bro's.

So, what you are saying is that with OBAMA as President, we have reached the pinnacle of the "ME" Generation?

[Prussianone]

When the progenitor-elect John F. Kennedy said, “we will”, he meant NOW! How is it that the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (an American institution, not meant for global rent), has come to a lowly position, speaking of “50 years down the road, we should be able to ...”.

The small-minded, Muslim-based Obama Administration, with no true knowledge or care for what has made America great and why, cannot have dreams that run counter to the so-called doggerel called Muslim fundamentalism, which can be summed up as “If Mohammed wanted us to fly, the horses would have wings”. This is directly opposed to Classical thinking, because the Greeks believed that there was the possibility that some horses did have wings!

[TigersEye]

"...And even if we find no indigenous Martians, as our first astronaut shakes the red soil from her boots, she will prove once and for all that humans are meant to explore."

Ah, so it has to be politically correct space exploration. No doubt she will shake the red soil from her space burqa too.

[IrishCatholic]

Like the Clinton’s refocus of NASA to a social program, the absolute lack of any commercial gain or capitalistic endeavor is telling.
Making a profit in space, making it commercially viable for private industry, would allow people to escape the controls of the state.

Fascists hate that.

[Alberta's Child]

The U.S. space program turned into a politically correct social program long before Clinton got into the White House. If you have any question about that, just go back and look at how much focus NASA put on the diversity of the crew in the 1986 Challenger disaster.

Then go back and look at the crews for the first half-dozen or so missions after the program was re-started in 1988 and the shuttle program was re-prioritized to get a backlog of military payloads up into orbit. Those crews were almost exclusively white men.

[reg45]

If you have any question about that, just go back and look at how much focus NASA put on the diversity of the crew in the 1986 Challenger disaster.

By early 1986, the space program had gone for nineteen years without a fatality. The people at NASA had gotten complacent and were regarding the shuttle as just another space bus. They went another seventeen years until the loss of Columbia.

[Alberta's Child]

Right. And look at that Columbia crew, too.

[KevinDavis]

No Comment..

[PIF]

“Muslim fundamentalism, which can be summed up as “If Mohammed wanted us to fly, the horses would have wings”

More correctly stated would be: if Allah (the koran) had wanted us to fly, the horses would have wings, but Mohammed said (in the hadiths and sunnahs) it is ok to cut them off.

Which is why horses no longer fly.

[GOPJ]

It’s sounds like it’s going to take NASA a long time to help the muzzies build up their self-esteem.

ROTFLMAO

[SunkenCiv]

The address was primarily a defense of the controversial Obama space policy.

She sucked before, and hasn't improved with age. Zero has no vision of his own, not even his dismantling of the Constitution and US sovereignty and establishment of the world caliphate -- but this "Obama space policy" is her vision, and it better termed "Obama non-space policy". There's nothing controversial about it, either -- it sucks. Thanks KD.