Posted on 01/25/2011 4:34:44 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Lol! Good one.
So we’re going to invent “stuff”
denial is counterproductive.
After 3-months, Sputnik 1 went down in a flaming ball of fire...
NASA didn't exist at that point, but it was hardly built from nothing after the Sputnik launch. NASA was formed out of NACA, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. This forerunner of NASA performed a lot of research that culminated in the design of many WWII-era aircraft, such as the P-51 Mustang. After the war, NACA focused on supersonic flight, helping to develop the X-1 aircraft that broke the sound barrier with Chuck Yeager at the controls. NACA produced much of the experimental data that is used to design and analyze modern aircraft. I use NACA data and methods to this day.
In the late '50s, NACA drew up plans for a blunt-body spacecraft that would re-enter the atmosphere using a heat shield. This design wasn't used until NACA, its designs, and projects were incorporated into NASA in 1958. To say that the science wasn't there in 1957 is a bit of revisionist history.
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He’s putting crap in, no-one will understand, Sputnik, watch 3/4’s of the country go wtf was that? This speech will go over many heads and many wont understand a word of it, its too elite wordy.
best excerpt is though : Obama to say “We cannot win the future with a government of the past.” What fortune cookie did he pull that unadulterated pile of crap out of.
I’d really like to watch this speech tonight but I have something else to do. I can’t think what that might be at the moment, but I’ll find something.
Not really.
It's heavy with "new technologies", "wireless for 98% of America", "green jobs" and 1-million of those 40-mile to the charge Chevy Volts by 2015.(i.e., electric automobiles...)
so basically back to the hopey changey pie in the sky bullcrap. He’s gonna sound like a loon.
It was Sputnik.
Obama, in excerpts of his speech released Tuesday evening, hearkened back to the Sputnik era, when the Russian satellite's 1957 launch set off the "space race" and a decade of intense technological development.
This is his way of saying he wants more huge and expensive government programs.
Amtrak redux
Obama’s Dudnik moment.
Aha. The NAU RR. Trans-TX corridor, etc.
Obama may as welll just substitute that sentence for “you are all useless crap, i will save you”
Its a fingerwagger speech, he could’nt resist.
Obama...don’t dare try and run the country down in that speech.
Reminds me of another Dictator who was good at making the trains run on time...
On govt spending: Pres Obama will say that families sacrifice to live within their means and “deserve a government that does the same.”
please tell me he is not going to say that with a straight face after Michelles foreign holidays and nights out on AF1.
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