Fine! Great! Now find a way to pay for all your Champaigne Dreams on a Beer budget without taking it from working American’s Pockets.
The security of our nation is at risk due to the Profilgate spending and largess of our elected and appointed leaders.
Wake up, smell the coffee..
We teeter on the Brink of an abyss..
We are all in this and your NASA Wiz Folks had better come up with some profitable and immediately benificial results of their work as well as ways to voluntarily reduce their budget.. Lets see them do it in advance otherwise they clearly do not give a rip about the nation anymore than the Demon-Crats and Republi-Cons and decerve to be gutted.
NASA
DOD
HHS
DOE
DOE
Everyone.
W
You’ve got some serious tunnel vision there, and I can see there isn’t much chance of getting through, all things are not politics, there IS a bigger picture to consider, and profit is not exclusively defined by dollar signs.
Ignoring that bigger picture and turning our backs on exploration as a nation IS the ultimate abyss.
I’ll leave you with this.........
Jacques Cousteau, the world famous ocean explorer, spoke of his own experience of exploring the waters off Crete, site of the ancient Minoan civilization. He and his crew were not after resources, but knowledge of a little-known civilization. “Why would we spend one full year of our lives and over $2 million just to raise a tiny corner of the veil concealing a few episodes of our past,” Cousteau asked rhetorically.
“What is the origin of the devouring curiosity that drives men to commit their lives, their health, their reputation, their fortunes, to conquer a bit of knowledge, to stretch our physical, emotional or intellectual territory? The more I spend time observing nature, the more I believe that man’s motivation for exploration is but the sophistication of a universal instinctive drive deeply ingrained in all living creatures. Life is growth — individuals and species grow in size, in number, and in territory. The peripheral manifestation of growing is exploring the outside world.”
Summarizing his remarks, Cousteau wrote “the exploration drive, pure and natural, is associated with risk, freedom, initiative, and lateral thinking,” by which he meant non-deductive reasoning that allows the mind to investigate apparently uncorrelated events and sometime find correlations. “The enemies of the exploration spirit are mainly the sense of security and responsibility, red tape, and exclusive vertical thinking,” by which he meant deductive thinking that does not also allow one to explore unusual pathways, whether physical or intellectual.