If there is, I hope they break the contract and dare NASA to do anything about it. There was an incident on a Soviet space station (the one before Mir) in which the astronauts got so fed up with the crap being fed their way by ground control that they simply turned off the comms for a few days and went on strike. When they turned the radios back on they were treated much nicer.
It's bad enough having to watch pretty much the whole damn country go down the tubes, but to have NASA actively feeding the national case of arrested development... argh.
The Mister Rogers and Sesame Street pedantry is just a bit too much.
Its's one thing if they limit it to "NASA for Kidz" or somesuch. But they don't. It's like walking into the bank and having the people there speak to you in babytalk. Woooodums wanna pwettie home impwooovement woan? Wanna wowwiepop? Say pweeze!
Playing songs to R/C cars?
WTF???
On my dollar?
WTF'nF???
At this rate, the next time around it'll be, "Our favorite Mars Robot, Wally the Wanderer, is playing near some very exciting rocks today! Wally was upset earlier. His special electronic brain was going "Ow! Ow!" Wally must have eaten a rock that did not taste good! We played Wally's favorite tune to him -- The Big Rock Candy Mountain -- while our Space Doctors worked on Wally's insides using very complicated tools. Hey, Space Doctor! Don't tickle Wally!"
LOL I agree 100%. It's assinine and either totally sophomoric or incredibly condescending (I vote for both). Now see how long it is before some ninny flames you for daring to criticize the hogs in the public trough at NASA. Welfare for PhDs and Engineers.
For some Unfathomable reason, those who publicise NASA revelations have been taught that the "General Public" are the Classic, "Ignorant Masses."
"The Elites" cannot understand that the Vast Majority of us are Quite Capable of understanding the Science & It's Implications!
& the "Elites" simply Don'T Believe that "the General "run" of Humanity is "On Their Side!!"
We WANT to go "Back to the Moon--& On to Mars!!"
It is our "Genetic Predisposition" to Explore our Environment.
& Besides, a Moon Colony & a Mars Colony will be a FUN ADVENTURE!!
Doc
IF we Must Live under the THREAT OF ANNIHILATION by Forces Inimical to the very Basis of our Existence,--we might as well turn our attention Outward, & embrace the Instincts of our Species, that we "Go OUT!!"
There are Those who believe that, as we are "Under Attack," we should "hunker Down,--& Try to survive."
There are Others of Us who believe that DESPITE predatory attacks, we should pursue oue "Destiny,"--that we should "Go on to the Moon & Mars, & Beyond!"
There is MUCH EVIDENCE that our Species is designed to Expand;--that for us to "retreat & Consolidate" is a form of Species Suicide!!
We shall see.
Doc