Environmental damage on Earth seen from shuttle

Reuters ^ | August 4, 2005 | Jeff Franks

[goarmy]

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Commander Eileen Collins said astronauts on shuttle Discovery had seen widespread environmental destruction on Earth and warned on Thursday that greater care was needed to protect natural resources.

Her comments came as NASA pondered whether to send astronauts out on an extra spacewalk to repair additional heat-protection damage on the first shuttle mission since the 2003 Columbia disaster.

Discovery is linked with the International Space Station and orbiting 220 miles above the Earth.

"Sometimes you can see how there is erosion, and you can see how there is deforestation. It's very widespread in some parts of the world," Collins said in a conversation from space with Japanese officials in Tokyo, including Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

"We would like to see, from the astronauts' point of view, people take good care of the Earth and replace the resources that have been used," said Collins, who was standing with Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi in front of a Japanese flag and holding a colorful fan.

Collins, flying her fourth shuttle mission, said the view from space made clear that Earth's atmosphere must be protected, too.

"The atmosphere almost looks like an eggshell on an egg, it's so very thin," she said. "We know that we don't have much air, we need to protect what we have."

[JimWforBush]

Is she the one who put the Pro-Kyoto bumper sticker on the shuttle.

[mozrock]

Yeah...it's called The Grand Canyon.

lmao

[goarmy]

"Yeah...it's called The Grand Canyon."

Thanks for making me laugh. Have a good day.

[scott7278]

It’s Bush’s Fault™

[Colonel_Flagg]

Commander Eileen Collins said astronauts on shuttle Discovery had seen widespread environmental destruction on Earth and warned on Thursday that greater care was needed to protect natural resources.

Let's get Commander Collins safely back to Earth and then remind her that politics are for the politicians.

[martin_fierro]

[clee1]

"We would like to see, from the astronauts' point of view, people take good care of the Earth and replace the resources that have been used," said Collins...

Huh?

And just how does this idiot propose that we replace the resources we have supposedly "used"?

And this is what we send into space???

[Shalom Israel]

"Sometimes you can see how there is erosion, and you can see how there is deforestation. It's very widespread in some parts of the world," Collins said in a conversation from space with Japanese officials in Tokyo...

Yup, she's a moron. What she means is, "When I look down, I can easily see that some spots are brown, and some spots are bumpy."

[billnaz]

I'm waiting for the part where they tell us that it's all Bush's fault.

[mozrock]

I LOVE YOUR TAGLINE HAHAHAH

Can you say rhetorical question? =)

[Sam Cree]

"you can see how there is deforestation"

The US, OTOH, has largely been reforested.

[Lazamataz]

Someday I would like to start up a vast array of factories.

Our only product?

Pollution.

24/7/365, my marvelous factories will belch horrible noxious gasses from smokestacks, and PCBs and other carcinogins will be dumped from rusty pipes into pristine rivers. Radiological byproducts will be shipped by the semi-trailer load in leaking barrels, and every morning, my SUV-driving employees will open the spigots on the pressure-tanks filled with greenhouse gasses that have been manufactured overnight.

"Rapicious Industries, Ltd." will someday exist, and I will be it's president.

[msf92497]

I wonder how much "toxic" crap that shuttle spews on every launch? And, doesn't it damage the ozone layer? And, it's not fair that they are able to travel in the shuttle...everyone should be given the equal opportunity to ride in that thing...

[scott7278]

Better buy some stock in PerriAir*

 

*Spaceballs joke.

 

 

[tiredoflaundry]

The atmosphere almost looks like an eggshell on an egg, it's so very thin," she said. "We know that we don't have much air, we need to protect what we have."

It's all because of that damn bovine flatulence!

[liberallarry]

Sometimes you can see how there is erosion, and you can see how there is deforestation. It's very widespread in some parts of the world

Where?

Certainly in the Amazon rain forest. Probably central and southern Chile, Canada, our Northwest. Perhaps Africa. Too bad the article didn't provide more detail.

[rabidralph]

Typical Air Force. You'd never this BS coming from the Navy.

[Publius6961]

Commander Eileen Collins said astronauts on shuttle Discovery had seen widespread environmental destruction on Earth and warned on Thursday that greater care was needed to protect natural resources.

I have been an unqualified supporter of NASA for longer than most Freepers have been alive, but I am ready to change positions.

Dump NASA.

When the Bugs and Bunny crowd has permeated the process so thoroughly as to glorify junk science and propagandize from orbit, I've had it.

Dump NASA.

Nothing would please the evirowhackos more than to take over NASA's resources and budget.

Over my dead wallet!

[scott7278]

Love the tagline BTW!

What makes it hilarious is that it supposedly was uttered by a politician who was due to respond in a debate.