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Posted on 01/30/2010 6:07:08 AM PST by Notary Sojac
NASA should be privatized.
I sure hope this does mean more money for COTS.
But Obama isn’t trying to do the right thing. Obama is a communist who hates anything that represents American pride. He isn’t trying to find the best way to explore space,,, he is trying to divert money into welfare programs and change NASA into a global warming agency. But his biggest goal is to kill anything that makes people think “America”.
Obama isnt a conservative,,he’s a marxist. If i take a shot at my neighbor, and miss, but accidently kill a deer standing far in the background, it doesn’t make me a great deer hunter.
This NASA isn’t your father’s NASA. It’s bloated, inefficient and wasteful. Private business (which I thought this site supported) is in position to pick up the slack. This is a good decision, probably the only thing the Obama administration has gotten right. The only fear I have is that turning NASA into an Earth watch agency will kill long range robotic missions.
Obama wants to give all OUR scientific expertise to Muzlem countries so that they can bury it in the sand.
Obama is jealous of everything that makes America great because his Mama trained him to think that America’s Best was beyond his ability.
Obama has the worst case of “American-Envy” ever!
Obambi has no use for Utah, Alabama, Texas and all those places the current NASA contractors have work being done at. If this guy can't see we are going to fall so much behind the Chinese (!) in space travel, he has blinders on.
Commiebama doesent want to go to the Moon or Mars, he just wants to study globull warming. What a dupe author.
That is not how I would phrase it.
I may post my thoughts about this later on..
Gotta calm down first? lol
HAHAHAHA and you actually believe the Lier in Chief?
LOLLOLOLOLOL.
Privatize the Universe.
Get out of that stupid socialist treaty that no one can claim space and start staking private and national claim and see just how fast competition and progress at all levels catches fire! Bring back something from the moon and you get a 50-year exclusive prospecting lease to one square degree of it. Anything you bring back and sell is totally tax-free at least to the end of the century. Same thing for asteroids except the small ones, you claim the whole thing.
And wherever a private or public claim is thus staked, the country of origin gets sovereignty so long as it keeps the claim active within 50 years. That gives us 9 more years to get back to the lunar landing sites before someone else could claim them. This regime could be implmented unilaterally by the United States which could use its advantages in space to gain or impose international recognition of a privatizing system of governance.
You tell me, Kevin, if I’m right that that damned treaty is the greatest impediment to space exploration and exploitation (a GOOD word, by the way!)
Nah,
No more so then our military should be privatized.
NASA is just as important, it’s a tiny fraction of the federal budget.
I am all for private industry, I am happy to champion it too, but NASA trailblazes in ways that they cannot.
The nations that pull back from the frontiers, will wane and wither in influence determining human history.
There is a place for “Yankee Clippers”, but the nation must also accomplish great things through yes, our government sometimes, the military and NASA are TWO jobs I have no problem with the government backing robustly.
Obama is just trying to gain some political traction by handing out money rather then sticking to long term national strategic space goals that will not manifest during his term.
“Our progress in space, taking giant steps for all mankind, is a tribute to American teamwork and excellence. Our finest minds in government, industry and academia have all pulled together. And we can be proud to say: We are first; we are the best; and we are so because we’re free. America has always been greatest when we dared to be great. We can reach for greatness again. We can follow our dreams to distant stars, living and working in space for peaceful, economic, and scientific gain.” -Ronald Wilson Reagan
I’m one of those contractors ripping the government off in Huntsville at Marshall Space Flight Center. (Lot’s of sarcasm)
What did Columbus, Magellan, Lewis and Clark, Chuck Yeager, Alan Shepard and Neil Armstrong all have in common?
Their exploration of the unknown was funded by government.
You won’t find private companies footing the bill for exploration of the UNKNOWN, because they are trying to make a profit.
Government does something that individual companies cannot - It pays for finding out what doesn’t work, what isn’t there and what doesn’t need to happen again.
“Privatize NASA” is a stupid statement.
What company can afford to send astronauts to the moon to find new resources? None.
Here’s another question: Why haven’t any private companies sent astronauts to the moon or Mars? No one is stopping them.
Research into space application is EXTREMELY challenging. It is also extremely expensive. Why?
Do you have a vacuum chamber in your lab? Uh, one big enough to place large automobile sized equipment?
How about Cryogenic holding tanks for the rocket engine test you need to run to validate your design? None of those either, huh?
NASA does the research that private companies cannot afford to do. And, NASA shares that research with the private sector so that they don’t go down the same dead end OR so that they can head in the RIGHT direction with the private investment moneys.
NASA isn’t perfect, and like any government agency, has its share of bloat and mismanagement. But, the technological spearhead that NASA provides is VITAL to the technological national security of this country.
Lastly, man is an explorer. People who quite exploring and quit wondering what is over the next horizon, well they are just dying in place.
As a country, if we quit taking the lead on exploring our universe, we become another European model - A country beginning to die.
“NASA should be privatized.”
To some extent. But at the very least, NASA should be broken up into smaller agencies.
Indeed and we need some incentive for private industry like solid property rights in space, otherwise there is no use if you go there and no one is supposed to own anything....
Certainly, as a “civilian” I am not aware of the managerial problems that NASA faces. However, whatever they are they can be corrected. What I fear is a government mandated retreat from achievement and space exploration so that the money can be used to buy votes for a rotten corrupt government. And this is what will happen as I am sure you know. It seems to me that this is kinda like trying to fix the pubbies from the inside out.
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