President Bush names 8 moon advisers

The News & Observer ^ | Friday, January 30, 2004

[NYC GOP Chick]

I aim to drag down every possible thread! :D

[Orangedog]

Carly Fiorina ... LMAO (What the hell does she know about space exploration?)

She sure as Hell knows how to wreck US corporations.

[mikrofon]

It appears that these seven guys may have been looking for work recently...

[NYC GOP Chick]

From your personal collection? ;D

Thanks for making me laugh so hard I damn near choked!

[Willie Green]

Carly Fiorina ... LMAO (What the hell does she know about space exploration?)

Maybe he should have appointed the Olsen Twins to choreograph this publicity stunt.

Footprints On The Moon

I wanna wake up before the rooster.
I wanna fire up those mighty boosters.
I feel fine, the universe is mine on ignition.
We are two kids with a mission.

We're gonna leave our footprints on the moon.
We're gonna leave our footprints on the moon.
We were born for greatness. Nothing picayune.
We're gonna leave our footprints on the moon.

I wanna suck my lunch from plastic packets.
I want life support in all my jackets.
We can see, how proud we're gonna be,
As commanders of that lunar lander.

We're gonna leave our footprints on the moon.
We're gonna leave our footprints on the moon.
I'm a rocket baby, I sing a rocket tune.
We're gonna leave our footprints on the moon.

I'm gonna floor that accelerator.
I'm gonna buzz through a lunar crater.
Check that crust.
So crumbly and dusty and rocky.
It's cool to be a rocket jockey.

We're gonna leave our footprints on the moon.
We're gonna leave our footprints on the moon.
We were born to follow, in the footsteps of Apollo.
We're gonna leave our footprints on the moon.
We're gonna leave our footprints on the moon.

[bonesmccoy]

Strange... not sure what to make of this.

The guys to pick were the scientists and astronauts who have experience on the moon.

Instead, NONE of the advisors have any experience in lunar ops.

[Kirkwood]

Michael Jackson - because he's an expert in moon-walking??

[NewRomeTacitus]

Advisors Barbra Streisand, Tim Robins, Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Janeane Garafolo, Ramsey Clarke, Al Franken and Peter Jennings can start sending their reports from the moon as soon as possible.

Seriously, bonesmccoy is right. This wreaks of another PR job. No matter what party they're from they all want to emulate JFK's space initiative.

[Righty1]

Any NEA types on it? PissChrist in space or GW's head collapses due to internal vacuum.

[mikrofon]

I agree, it would have been better to have more members with lunar experience on the panel, but perhaps "diversity" played a hand in the selections, or it was thought that picking people with ties to the past bureaucracy would give the appearance of a "stacked deck" re: the direction of the program...

[bonesmccoy]

Diversity?

Heck, I'm in favor of diversity but when diversity is at the cost of expertise...I'm totally opposed to it!

What the heck does Carly Fiorina know about spaceflight?

I know more about the lunar program, shuttle operations, and human physiology than she does!

The only thing Fiorina has innovated is how to buy Compaq!

[NormsRevenge]

I'd consider leaving my wife for the Olsen twins. ;-\

Of course, it would probably be followed shortly by my last heartbeat, but... :-}

Carly is the head cheese at a major corporation, after all. But I, too, am having a hard time making the connection to reality.

[Quix]

Maybe it's getting late.

But I'm glad I read it again and saw that it wasn't advisors mooning him!

[Charles Henrickson]

The 8 Moon Advisers:

Wally Moon, Warren Moon, Sun Myung Moon,
Moon Mullins, Moon Landrieu,
Alice Kramden, Andy Williams, Andy Kaufman

[NormsRevenge]

LOLOL

[Cincinatus' Wife]

.....Edward C. "Pete" Aldridge, a former Air Force secretary, would lead the group. The other members announced Friday are:

Carly Fiorina, chairman and CEO of the Hewlett-Packard Co. NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe has discussed organizational-culture issues with her.

Michael P. Jackson, a deputy secretary at the Department of Transportation.

Laurie Ann Leshin, a geologist at Arizona State University.

Paul Spudis, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory and a moon expert.

Lester Lyles, a retired Air Force general who worked on military space-launch and missile-defense systems.

Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist who is director of the Hayden Planetarium at the New York Museum of Natural History.

Robert Walker, a former U.S. representative from Pennsylvania and chairman of the House Science Committee.

Maria Zuber, a geophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has won awards for her work on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor robotic spacecraft.

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[RadioAstronomer]

Thanks :-)

[Don Joe]

Yup, PC LOSER does have a certain ring to it.

[Don Joe]

The only thing Fiorina has innovated is how to buy Compaq!

Well that didn't turn out very well, did it. Compaq bought HP.

[Walkin Man]

President Bush on Friday named the eight people from academia and industry who will join former Air Force Secretary Pete Aldridge on a commission charged with figuring out how to get humans back to the moon and beyond.

Great, just what America needs to do, throw billions more away on some Star Trek fantasy / welfare for rocket scientists.

To bad President Bush doesn't form a commission to figure out how to generate and keep good jobs in the USA.

I guess you can judge a man by his priorities, eh?