It's SPACEBALL 1!!! EGADS!!!
Posted on 08/04/2005 8:07:09 AM PDT by 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."
...and the people that inhabit the Earth look like ants.
Yes, people have shrunk.
Unbelievable B*LLSh!T!
Politics in the Universe !
Yuck !
Due to the damge of our environement of course!
Oh my, we don't have much air?!! We need to start locking it up somewhere or bottling it so it doesn't just float off into space! Or get wasted by being breathed by someone else! Oh my!!!
susie
Typical NASA.
Love the tagline BTW!
So does this mean we can declare war on third world countries and be happy?
I knew we shouldn't have let her go.
I rarely take environmental advice from astronauts who rely on hyrdocarbon-based methods to take their plastic and polymer based shuttles into space.
Brazil has a lot to answer for them.
" 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"
And she's an astronaut, so I guess that makes her an expert, Right?
I wonder how much that opinion cost me?
It's SPACEBALL 1!!! EGADS!!!
Maybe the Space Madness(tm) has them all thinking they're environmental scientists?
What crap... I doubt she really said this tripe...
This is a crock of sh*t!
Wonder if she can see Mexicans running across the border from there too?
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