Is It NASA’s Job to Make Muslim Nations ‘Feel Good’?

National Review ^ | 07/06/2010 | Elliot Abrams

[andy58-in-nh]

They need to study the effects of beheading in space.

Difficult, I guess, but not impossible. Of course, stoning in space is a non-starter - the rocks would just float away.

[commish]

The only outreach NASA needs to be involved with concerning Muslim countries is ensuring the reentry vehicles are on target.

[null and void]

Did you mean Bolden? Bolton is a good guy.

[null and void]

Referring to Obama’s quote from “Dreams of My Father” that he associated with Marxist professors, Drew says, “What he’s not saying is that he was in 100 percent total agreement with those Marxist professors.

To be 100% he'd have to deny allah and be an atheist.

[Conan the Librarian]

Let us give credit where credit is due (at least to the arabs)

They gave us the word ‘Algebra’ (Al-Jabr) and many of the concepts therein. Many of the names of stars are Arabic in nature. Algol, Beatleguise, Rigel, Alpharez, and many others are straight up Arabic.

The problem is that they really haven’t done anything with the knowledge nor do they want anyone else to do anything with it.

[andy58-in-nh]

It is revealing that the Muslim contributions to science (some of which were truly significant) largely ceased to advance after the 13th century, at which point it appears that Islamic scientific empiricism ran headlong into the stone wall of its obdurate faith.

[SeekAndFind]

The problem is that they really haven’t done anything with the knowledge nor do they want anyone else to do anything with it.

My belief has always been this --- the farther one gets from the literal understanding and obedience to the Koran, the more moderate and wiser one becomes. The closer one gets to obedience to the literal meaning of the Koran, the more violent, barbaric and foolish one becomes.

[pepsi_junkie]

Really though, what has NASAs mission been since the 1980s anyway? They launched the shuttles 30 years ago, what of any significance have they done since? And what major goal have they been striving towards? When the director of NASA says that with 40 years of NASA advances since we put a man on the moon America now cannot go beyond low earth orbit without help from other nations, I declare NASA a failure.

[bunkerhill7]

Is It NASA’s Job to Make Muslim Men ‘Feel Good Women’?

[BuffaloJack]

> Is It NASA’s Job to Make Muslim Nations ‘Feel Good’?
Does this mean that it’s NASA’s job to nuke muslim nations from orbit?

[GraceG]

“Ibn al-Haytham’s Book of Optics which is widely considered a revolution in the fields of optics and visual perception.”

This poor guy spent plenty of time in Islamic prison in Egypt for his science, suffered far more so that the so called “whipping boy of medevial science” Nicolaus Copernicus that the left always seems to tout as an example of how “intolerant Christianity is to science “.

[WOBBLY BOB]

so much for these guys...

[calex59]

Put the blame where it belongs, on Bozo the WH clown, he is the one that gave the order, not NASA.

[Thurston_Howell_III]

Lets not forget the Burka space suits, so that any aliens enountered would not “leer” at female astronauts.

[Marty62]

Yes, I’m sorry to Bolton. I think he is great. This Bolden guy is a GW/CC true believer.

[PghBaldy]

The last thing muslims need is higher self-esteem. Just like criminals, their self-esteem should be LOWER.